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History of the Net
Geoffrey M. Rockwell
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Togo Salmon 309A
[email protected]: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hccrs/ihchome.htm
McMaster University
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Teddy Bear Hoax
Hi Everyone,I just got this message from one of my friends. Sure enough my address book was infected, which means yours will be also.The virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is not detected by Norton or McAfee anti-virus systems.The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging the system. It's sent automatically by the messenger and by the Address Book, whether or not you sent e-mails to your contacts. I have checked, found it, and deleted it.
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Jargon Watch
• Avatars• Agents• Bots• MUDs, MOOs• Asynchronos, Real-time• Push vs Pull
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What is a computer network?
A system of computers interconnected by telephone wires or other means in order to share information. Also called a “net”.
• Physical Layer - Cables, Routers, NIC (Cards)
• Software Layer - Protocols and Packets• Service Layer - WWW, E-mail, Gopher
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LANs
• Local Area Network
Network Cards
Cable
Networked DevicesFile Server Net Printer
Shared DevicesPersonal Computers
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WANs
• Wide Area Network
CAnet (Canada Wide)
Onet (Ontario Wide)
McMaster Backbone
Internet (US nets)
Togo Salmon LAN Other Buildings
Other Universities
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What is the Internet
• internet = a network of networks• Internet = the web of academic and
commercial networks that use the TCP/IP protocol
• Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
• The Infobahn (Transport vs Service)
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Movement of Information
Packets1. Your file is divided into lots of small packets.
2. The packets are addressed.
3. The packets are sent out.
4. Packets are reassembled into a file
IP = From: and To: TCP = How many packets, order
Information
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How does WWW Work?• Servers and Clients/Readers• HyperText Trasnfer Protocol (HTTP)
httpd = HTTP Daemon
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
Internet
Reader
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Netscape
httpd
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Network vs. ServiceE-Mail Packets
WWWPackets
Gopher Packets
From: IP Address/To: IP Address
Start Packet Stop PacketEnvelope Information
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What can you do with network?
• Share a Mainframe - Terminals• Share a File Server• Swap Files (FTP)• Send Electronic Mail• Join Discussion Groups• Publish and Read Information (Gopher,
WWW)
Application Server
File Server
E-mail Server
WWW Server
List Server (Listserv)
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How do computers change communication?
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How do computers change communication?
• Networks change how we communicate• Internet, E-mail, WWW, Chat, MUDs, IRC
• Computers change what we communicate• Multimedia, Procedures, Agents
• Networks change where we communicate• Home Office, Virtual Spaces
• Networks change when we communicate• Asynchronos Communication, Chat
• Networks change the pace of communication
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What will you be able to do on the Internet?
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What will you be able to do?
• Subscribe to multimedia information (video on demand)
• Play Collaborative games (collaborative work) √• Buy things - Conduct secure financial transactions √• Send out Agents to do tasks like booking a flight.• Chat and videoconference √• Remote sensing √• Distributed computing (Where will your PC go?)
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Questions 1
• What sorts of ethical issues can you imagine cropping up on the Internet?
• Should nations, universities, or families have internet policies?
• Should the Internet be privately managed or publicly managed?
• What sort of Internet policy should McMaster have?
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Unacceptable Use
“misuse electronic mail and communication networks. For example, using the network for commercial purposes; sending obscene and/or prejudicial messages; transmitting excessively large files (300,000 bytes) over external networks.”
CIS Student Guide p. 26
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Questions 2
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
John Berger (b. 1926), British author, critic. "The Third Week of August, 1991," in London Guardian (London, 4 Sept. 1991; repr. in Keeping a Rendezvous, 1992).
Is there a message to the Internet?
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Questions 3
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
Günther Grass (b. 1927), German author. Interview in New Statesman & Society (London, 22 June 1990).
• What could you do with instant access to information?• Are we better informed if we have unlimited access to
information?• Does the nature of information change?• Will the Internet stifle or encourage innovation?
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Questions 4A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses . . . : this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires. . . to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.
Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. Fatal Strategies, "Figures of the Transpolitical" (1983; tr. 1990).
Is this true of the Internet?
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Questions 5
1923 - Canadian National Railways is created by a takeover of bankrupt roads and a merger of the roads with the government-owned Grand Trunk and Intercolonial roads to form a government-owned rail network larger than any other in the Western Hemisphere. Canadian National has 20,573 miles of track-7,000 miles more than Canadian Pacific.
How is a transportation network different from a communications network?