Explore the internet's history and the technology underlying the web, including IP addressing, web servers, URLs, and HTML.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- How the Internet was born
- Who manages the Internet?
- Sending and receiving information
- The Internet Protocol and IP address
- Scaling up the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6
- The Domain Name Server and DNS
- Routers and directing requests
- Packets and fault tolerance
- Reliability and TCP
- Identifying a server with URLs
- HTTP and requests
- Hypertext and HTML
- Remembering requests with cookies
- Securing requests with SSL and TLS
- Caesar's cypher and keys
- Improving security with longer keys
- Symmetric and asymmetric keys
- Goodbye
Taught by
Doug Winnie