Internet History, Security, and Technology (IHTS)

Hello and welcome to my site where we take a look at how the Internet came to be and how it works.

1: History: Dawn of Electronic Computing

We look at how computing, networks, and information evolved in the 1940's and 1950's.

2: History: Research and Design of Packet Networks

NSFNet

3: History: The Web Makes it Easy to Use

Web.

4: History: Commercialization and Growth

Internet growth in the later 1990's.

5: Technology: Internets and Packets

The low-level basics of the how data moves across the Internet.

6: Technology: Transport Control Protocol (TCP)

How data is moved reliably across an unreliable underlying network.

7: Technology: Application Protocols

Once we can move data reliably, what different kinds of data do we move.

8: Security: Encrypting and Signing

How we sign and verify data digitally.

9: Security: Web Security

Web Security.

10: Final Exam and Graduation

Final exam and graduation.