How did the internet originate?
The Internet was created as a project in 1958 by the United States Government ARPA (The Advanced Research Projects Agency) to network computers in order to gain a technological, and potentially a military advantage over the Soviets in the middle of the cold war.
Who were the people most responsible for creating it?
United States Government ARPA (The Advanced Research Projects Agency)
What system immediately preceded the internet? What was it’s purpose?
Later the "internet" was opened to the common user and became what it is today with the help of the graphical environment created using a programming language called HTML used to create the application called World Wide Web.
What is an IP packet? What is it comprised of?
Information is disassembled into small blocks of data, sent independently to the destination address, then reassembled at the receiving end. Each block of data is known as an IP packet.
What does TCP stand for? How does TCP deal with lost IP packets?
The protocol responsible for orchestrating the movement of IP packets through cyberspace is the Transfer Control Protocol, better known as TCP. TCP is “layered” on top of the addressing protocol (IP) to break requests into small packets, monitor the arrival of each IP packet at the destination address, call for the re-transmission of missing packets, and reassemble the packets into the original form.
Why do computer people like everything in letters ?
Because letters are more easier to work with & are more easier to remember compared to numbers.
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