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Types Of Network

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

LAN

Local Area Network

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Connecting To It Has Evolved

Wireless Routers changing to Home Hubs which first arrived from nothing but solid wire connections.

From Copper Wires to Fibre Optic cables

Connecting People Globally

Blogging sites Tumblr/Blogspot

Social Networks, Facebook, Twitter etc

Addresses

Subtopic

MAC

Media Access Control

Protocols

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

Port Numbers

1024+

Client Ports

1-1024

Server Ports

OSI Model

Open Systems Interconnect

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

IP

Internet Protocol

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

HTTP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

New Services Are Availiable

Hotmail, Wikipedia

Evolved to produce more graphic and animation based sites.

Inserting Pictures onto websites

New types of displays, and colour designs

Flash Player

Global Network

Local Servers Placed All Around The World

Worl Wide Web