Unit 6: Communication systems and digital information - Eric Olaru

1. The power of information

1.1. Finding information

1.1.1. Search engine

1.1.2. Hyperlinks

1.1.3. RSS

1.2. Managing information

1.3. Organising information

1.4. Sharing information

1.4.1. Horizontal social networks

1.4.2. Vertical social networks

1.5. Creating information

1.5.1. Web pages

1.5.2. Blogs

1.5.3. Wikis

2. User licenses

2.1. Open source

2.2. Closed source

2.3. Free

2.4. Propietary

2.5. Commercial

2.6. Freeware

2.7. Public domain

2.8. Trial

2.9. Demo

2.10. Creative common licenses

3. Internet security measures

3.1. Privacy

3.2. Internet worms

3.3. Cyberbullying

3.4. Viruses

3.5. http vs https protocol

3.6. Lost or stolen mobile phone

3.7. Phising

3.8. Banners

3.9. Trojan horses

3.10. Botnet attacks

4. Communication systems

4.1. Communication is the transmission of information from one place to another

4.2. A transmission protocol is a set of rules that all the devices in a communication system follow so that they can understand each other and exchange information

4.3. Analogue signal

4.4. Digital signal

5. Wired communication and wireless communication

5.1. Hub

5.2. Switch

5.3. Router

5.4. Repeater

5.5. Ethernet network card

5.6. RJ45 connector

5.7. Infrared

5.8. Bluetooth

5.9. GPRS

6. Networks

6.1. BAN

6.2. PAN

6.3. LAN

6.4. CAN

6.5. MAN

6.6. WAN

6.7. SAN

7. The internet

7.1. Standardisation

7.2. ISP

7.3. IP adress

7.4. Domain names

7.5. Domain names serves

7.6. TCP/IP protocol

8. Web evolution

8.1. Web 1.0

8.2. Web 2.0

8.3. Web 3

8.4. Digital transformation