CSI110: Test # 1 Study Guide

You should know:

• The History of the Internet
• The history of the ARPANet (rough dates of creation, reasons for its creation, design goals, etc)
• The factors leading up to the explosive growth of the Internet in the 90s
• The people and organizations involved with creating the original Arpanet
• The creator of E-Mail, the Web, and the first graphical web browser
• The Internet and How it Works
• How information travels over the internet
• How TCP/IP works
• the difference between a circuit-switched and packet-switched network
• How routers direct traffic on the Internet
• The 4 layer Internet model (derived from the 7-layer OSI network model)
• The World Wide Web
• History of the WWW: Who invented it, who invented the first graphical browser, and when
• The application protocol used by the World Wide Web
• The "Killer App" of the Arpanet
• How a browser works
• Anything in the assigned textbook readings, online readings, lecture, and video may be on the test