Tools for Information Literacy

Preparations for Networks and Protocols session

on Local Area Networks

read these sections of How Ethernet Works by Nick Pidgeon in How Stuff Works (they are short, so you can read more if you wish)

1. Introduction to How Ethernet Works
2. Why Network?
3. Local Area vs. Wide Area
4. The Ethernet
5. Ethernet Basics
6. Ethernet Terminology
7. Ethernet Medium

Watch a short discussion of the relationships we will discuss today.

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on The Internet, a network of networks

First watch this TED talk about the physical part of the Internet

Then glance over these sections of How Internet Infrastructure Works by Jeff Tyson in How Stuff Works [they are short]

1. Introduction to How Internet Infrastructure Works
2. A Hierarchy of Networks
3. A Network Example
4. Bridging The Divide
5. Backbones
6. Internet Protocol: IP Addresses
7. Internet Protocol: Domain Name System
8. Uniform Resource Locators
9. A DNS Example
10. Clients and Servers
11. Ports

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Other items relevant to today's class

1. 50 years of the Internet: half a century of light and shadow
2. Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
3. What is the internet? 13 key questions answered
4. WWW vs. the Internet: What's the Difference?
5. Internet topology: What does the Internet look like?
6. In an eye-blink, ...
7. It was a really bad month for the internet
8. The infrastructure mess causing countless internet outages
9. How A Small ISP in Pennsylvania Tanked a Big Chunk of the Web on Monday
10. Mary Meeker's most important trends on the internet
11. Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means.
12. Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
13. The Top 10 Internet Browsers for 2019
14. Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL
15. Why There Are Only 13 DNS Root Name Servers

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