"Why are you taking this class?" - my 15-year-old daughter asked me when she was browsing through the "How the Internet Works" book. First of all I take this class to balance my part time work in Olympia with 2 more difficult Senior and Master level classes. The second reason is getting the whole picture of the technology in one class.
In the last quarter before my graduation I'm supposed to know all this material. I found myself in the situation when I know a lot of difficult things in Computer Science and I am very proud of my achievement. However, I missed a lot of simple things while I was busy working on Java coding, creating database driven web applications and learning how operation system works. I was surprised not knowing what was launched first: e-bay or Wikipedia, who was the father of the internet and so on. Living and working in a virtual world are required knowledge in many fields. So, I expect to overview the major components of World Wide Web.
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