This is the set of terms from "How the web was won", defined by me.

1. Melissa Davis
The World Wide Web
22nd February 2010
Key Terms From “How The Web Was Won”
Packet Switching
•Used mostly before the internet was formed.
•Files broken up into smaller pieces called “packets”
•Each piece is labeled separately by “origin and destination” within the original file.
•Sent over a network then spread to router of recipient.
Node
•Connection point or endpoint
•Attached to a network
Network
•Technological or electronic system
•Used to transmit and receive information with cables or without
ARPA
•Advanced Research Agency
•Created in response to sputnik satellite launch
•Created for military purpose and by monitoring soviet attacks.
•Government Funded
Arpanet
•First network
•Interconnected small amount of sites
PC (Personal Computer)
•First personalized computer to enter universities and businesses
Email
•Electronic mail system used for sending files to a specific location
•Used for communication by sending “mail” to from one person to the next by using computers or
“terminals”
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
•Used to connect networks to one another
•Connected networks to become the internet
Hypertext
•Use of text through computing with the use of links
•A way the computer can communicate to the person
Browser
•Computer software
•Used to display technological, encoded pictures, documents, and so forth on the world wide web
Interface Message Processors (IMP)

2. •Like packet switching
•They can send more data at one time
•Used as a slight network connection