Collegeboard 4.1
Collegeboard 4.1, The Internet
- 4.1 The Internet
- 4.1 Revolves around computers and how they give and get data via systems, networks, and Passes
4.1 The Internet
4.1 Revolves around computers and how they give and get data via systems, networks, and Passes
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Computers as a whole have evolved a lot, starting big, yet going smaller
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It was still hard to communicate with friends, even with new tech
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Computers can send and receive data, such as packets, which are small amounts of data sent in a network,and primarily source and destination info.
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How do they communicate? A computer network is a group of connected computing devices able to send or recieve data.
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A computer system is a group of computing devices and programs working together for a joint purpose.
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A Path between 2 machines (sender and reciever) is a sequence that begins at the sender and ends at the reciever. While Routing is the process of finding a path from sender to reciever,
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Bandwidth is the max amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time (bits per second)