Cheating is absolutely not tolerated. Neither is disrespect or condescension. This is a difficult subject and the best way to learn it is as a team. Here is what I expect. This is what the University expects.
Your book should be in-stock at the UO Bookstore. We'll be following it pretty closely, so please try to read the chapters before the day that we reach them in class.
Now that we have all of that out of the way, let's get started! These are exciting times.
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In the beginning, there was light. Well, actually, in the beginning there were phone lines, and light came a little bit later ... at least as far as the Internet is concerned.
That's right. The beginning of the Internet happened over an infrastructure that was little more than sending morse code by wire. Today's Internet is only slightly more complicated, utilizing standardized technology and fiber-optics, but the payoff has been amazing. You may not be very familiar with the history of the Internet, except to hear others say that Al Gore claimed to invent it. Gore was, in fact, an important part of the Internet's development. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as "Instrumental in helping to create the 'Information Superhighway,' Gore was one of the first government officials to recognize that the Internet’s impact could reach beyond academia to fuel educational and economic growth as well."
Well, now that you know how the internet came to be, it's time to learn how it works. We're all familiar with typing a url into our address bar and being whisked away to our favorite websites. What you may not realize is that there's actually a lot more to it than that. In order for your computer to get to the information it needs, it goes through several steps; one of which is a DNS lookup. This process explores several client/server relationships along the way. (Insert Client/Server game here)
This is all just one long-winded way of saying that information transportation isn't magic. There's a lot of choreography that goes in to getting your computer to dance.
Additional Links From Today
* DNS Lookup Route
* TraceRoute Service
* Out with a Bang!
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