COMM-101 Computer Applications in Communications - January 22

							COMM-101 Computers
 in Communications

Thursday, November 10, 2011
       Joe Boehnlein
             Today’s Agenda

       Internet
             Series   of tubes
       Social Media
             Take   down your dirty pictures!




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Senior Project
Presentations

 Thursday & Friday
 Good Recital Hall
The Internet




        How Does it Work?
                     History
Who invented the Internet?


                   Al Gore?                        Dwight D.
                                                   Eisenhower?




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                   History
Dwight D. Eisenhower


                   • Supreme Commander of
                   Allied Troops in WW II
                   • Wanted Government to
                   function in time of war


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                         History
Led to…
     Advanced         Research Projects Agency
       (ARPA)
            ARPANET
            December 1969
            Nodes at UCLA, Stanford, Utah, Cal-San Bernadino
     ARPA         develops internetworking protocols
            1970’S
            LANs act as gateways for academia and business

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                   History
 Internet divided into two parts
     1983 - ARPANET and MILNET
     Required to use TCP/IP

 Domain Name System (DNS)
   established
       1984
 Worldwide Web and Mosaic Developed
     1989/1991 by Tim Berners-Lee
     1994 (Mosaic)

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     Internet Components
 The Internet – A vast collection of
   computer networks

 The World Wide Web – The graphical
   component of the Internet, consisting of
   individual pages

 Web Site – A collection of related pages

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     Internet Components
 Home Page – The entry, or Index page, for a
   web site

 Links – Hypertext used to jump from one
   page to another

 Browser – The graphical user interface (GUI),
   or software, used to view web pages

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     Internet Components
 Server – Computer that hosts web pages and
   web sites

 Web Address – Universal Resource Locator,
   or URL, which is used to find the appropriate
   server

 Domain Name – Plain English for the IP
   address of the server
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     Internet Components


          Domain Name System (DNS) –
          Translates text addresses to IP
                    addresses




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 The Internet

What Happens When You Type a
 Web Page in Your Browser?
           Internet Browsing
 Cookie
   A small, simple text file placed on your
    hard drive by a web site that you visited
          Allows the website to identify your computer
          Not a program

 Spiders
   Programs used by search engines to
    gather info about what’s available on The
    Internet
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            Internet Security
 Malware
     Softwarethat can be harmful (or malicious)
    to your computer
 Spyware
       Programs on your hard drive that send info about
        how you use your computer to marketers
 Adware
   Spyware that displays ads for products based on
    your usage
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            Internet Security
 Firewall
    A   security device (either hardware or
       software) that controls access from the
       Internet to a local network
          Restrictsport access to non-requested
           incoming traffic
          Can also block outgoing traffic to restricted
           sites
          Alerts user to suspicious activity


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              Internet Nasties
 A Worm is a program that propagates itself across
   computers, usually by creating copies of itself in each
   computer's memory.

 A Virus is a program that "infects" computer files
   (usually other executable programs) by inserting in
   those files copies of itself.

 A Trojan Horse is a destructive program disguised
   as a game, a utility, or an application.

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             Virus Prevention
 Being careful about installing software
   you don’t know where it came from.

 Be careful of other users on your
   computer.

 Use a virus protection program

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              Virus Protection
 Virus Protection Software
   Norton AntiVirus/McAfee VirusScan/AVG
   Scan Hard Drives
   Setup automatic protection
          Floppy   disks/Downloads/E-mail
     Updatevirus definitions regularly
     Beware of .exe e-mail attachments

 Windows Update

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                   Social Media




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                   Social Media

          Professors are on social media

             Professors talk to each other

             NOTHING POSTED ON
           THE INTERNET IS PRIVATE!

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          Questions?




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                   Next Time
 Talk about Dreamweaver
 Hand Out Web Assignment
 Give back your Photoshop and
   InDesign assignment… promise.




                            COMM 101
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