Objectives of module 3

Ideas and concepts

 

• A history of how the network was conceived, specified, designed and constructed.

• A general understanding of how the technology behind the Internet works.

• An appreciation of the network's significance, power and potential.

• Familiarity with some of the personalities whose thinking and work led, directly or indirectly, to the creation of the Internet and the World Wide Web

• An understanding of the role played by the key institutions in the story - for example, MIT, ARPA, RAND, the National Physical Laboratory and CERN.

• An appreciation of the distinctive subculture which has grown around the Internet.

Skills

• How to search the Web intelligently and efficiently, and how to assess the quality and reliability of the information you find.

• How to keep an online diary.

• How to cope with information overload.

• How to write attractive web pages.

• How to write attractive web pages.

• How to create a small web site.

NOTE:

This has been copied and pasted from the T171 web site.

Part of module three was also based on a set book, Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Mathew Lyon. The book tells the story of how the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) evolved in to the Internet, as we know it today. In this module, I discovered how the network was conceived, designed and constructed. An understanding of how the Internet works, its significance and its future potential and the roles played by the key institutions, ARPA, MIT, RAND and CERN.

The main skills I learned from this module were how to search the web intelligently and efficiently, and how to assess the quality of the information that I found. I also learned how to keep an online diary. However, I did not use this method because I prefer the old fashioned way, with the use of pen and paper. Other skills learned were how to cope with information overload and how to create attractive web pages.

For the assignment for this module I had to choose from two titles and produce a web report on one of them, I chose to do my TMA on the Transfer Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). I had to examine the importance of TCP/IP in the development of the Internet and how it was developed.