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Ballantine Launches Sucessful Personal URL Campaign For The ...

                               Ballantine Launches Successful Personal URL Campaign for th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2007 | Comments : 0

The ARPANET

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Posted On : Jul, 10 2007 | Comments : 0

Atomic Laser, Predicted by Einstein, Built for the First Tim...

In 1925, Albert Einstein forecasted the survival of the atom laser, a totally dissimilar sort of laser, but until now, no one could actually build one, so it was considered almost a practical impossibility. For the first time, a team of Ita [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Internet Routers

Internet routers are dedicated computers that communicate the network by switching communications from one line to another at cross points. When a computer communicates with another on the Internet, it addresses each packet with the other c [...]

Posted On : Apr, 28 2007 | Comments : 0

Domain Name System (DNS)

The Domain Name System (DNS) servers distribute the job of mapping domain names to IP addresses among servers allocated to each domain. Each second-level domain must have at least one domain name server responsible for maintenance of inform [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2007 | Comments : 0

IP Addresses

Each computer on the Internet has a unique numerical address, called an Internet Protocol (IP) address, used to route packets to it across the Internet. Just as your postal address enables the postal system to send mail to your house from a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2007 | Comments : 0

IRTF -- Internet Research Task Force

The mission of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is to conduct research into the long term future of the Internet. The IRTF is guided by the Internet Research Steering Group, and is composed of a number of small research groups that w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2007 | Comments : 0

EUnet -- European Network

The European Network (EUnet) spread the ARPANET throughout the research community in Europe, and connected universities and research centers in a similar way to how the CSNet worked in the United States. Before 1988, the EUnet primarily s [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

NCP -- Network Control Program

The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was the first standard networking protocol on the ARPANET. NCP was finalized and deployed in December 1970 by the Network Working Group (NWG), led by Steve Crocker, also the inventor of the Request For Com [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

ARPANET -- The First Internet

The ARPANET was the first wide area packet switching network, the "Eve" network of what has evolved into the Internet we know and love today. The ARPANET was developed by the IPTO under the sponsorship of DARPA, and conceived and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Internet Architecture

The Internet's architecture is described in its name, a short from of the compound word "inter-networking". This architecture is based in the very specification of the standard TCP/IP protocol, designed to connect any two networks [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

ISOC -- Internet Society

The Internet Society (ISOC) is the international, umbrella Internet organization, founded in 1992. It is a non-governmental organization, made up of more than 100 organizations and thousands of individuals, with an international mission to [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2007 | Comments : 0