Thu Oct 14

Finish our discussion of networks.

I've posted my answers to the homework questions.

Here are some topics we might discuss.

• xkcd
  • map of the internet
  • online communities 1 - 2007 | explained
  • online communities 2 - 2010 | explained
• privacy & security
  • private network ip addresses ... here "private" just means "local"
  • vpn ... "virtual private network" - anonymize (hopefully) your traffic
  • TOR - the onion router - a more anonymized (hopefully) network of clients & servers
• infrastructure , governance , politics , and all that
  • wikipedia: internet governance (ICANN)
  • wikipedia: RFC (defining documents)
  • wikipedia: root name servers
  • EFF
  • W3C
  • CDN (companies that provide distributed web presence)
• protocols
  • email : SMTP, POP3, IMAP
  • torrent
  • voice over ip - tangle of protcols
  • list of assigned ports

No homework due next week, and no classes this Monday.

When we come back, we'll start a new topic : back-end web development.

aside

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