Short Topics

These tutorials are a variety of short topics, including the history of the Internet and an overview of the technologies of the Internet.

This section is currently shorter than most, but is expected to grow.

The complete listing of tutorials can be found below or you can use the side menu to move section by section.

1. Short Topics
   The main page for the section.
2. Unix Review
   A really quick review of Unix.
3. Internet History
   A brief look at the history of the Internet.
   1. Beginnings
      A history of the origins of the Internet.
   2. Development
      A history of the coming of age of the Internet.
   3. Explosion
      A history of the beginnings of the World Wide Web and the resulting explosive growth of the Internet.
4. Internet Services
   An overview of the tools available for the Internet.
   1. FTP
      A history and overview of FTP, the File Transfer Protocol
   2. Telnet
      A history and overview of Telnet.
   3. E-Mail
      E-mail, its history and what it did for the Internet.
   4. USENET
      A history and overview of USENET.
   5. IRC
      Internet Relay Chat (IRC). And you thought instant messages was something new.
   6. MUDs, MUSHes, and MOOs
      A history and overview of Multiuser Dungeons and the origins of online gaming.
   7. BBS
      A history and overview of Bulletin Board Systems, the beginnings of a public Web.
   8. Search Engines
      A history and overview of Search Engines.
   9. World Wide Web
      The World Wide Web has two components a user needs to worry about, Web pages and Web browsers.
5. Internet Technologies
   An overview what goes on behind the scenes at the Internet cafe.
   1. Networks
      A look at the hardware that drives (and is) the Internet.
   2. Protocols
      The rules of the road that the computers on the information super-highway all have to obey. That should get the cliche police pounding on my door.
   3. Domain Names
      The Internet address that was written for humans, not machines.
   4. Hypertext
      The rules of the Web, and the basic tools it uses.
   5. Management
      In order to run a really big network, you need a really big bureaucracy.
6. Networking
   A look at connecting between documents over the network.
   1. Types of URL
      The different forms of the URL and their uses.
   2. Writing the URL
      The encoding of special characters in the URL.
   3. Relative and Absolute Addresses
      Writing relative and absolute addresses.
   4. HTTP Basics
      A look at the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

These pages can be found at: [http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/]
Copyright 2003 -- Peter L. Kantor[kantopet@hvcc.edu]
Last Updated August 2003