The Architecture of Cyberspace

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The word architecture has many different connotations including the construction of buildings and the planning or engineering of parts to make up a structural composition. In relation to computers, it is the style and fundamental groundwork, allowing people on a mass scale to communicate globally with one another via protocols; a universal programming language, interconnecting an infrastructure of networks (AKA the Internet to you and me). There are many components of website architecture; Internet service providers, Web browsers/URLS, Web hosting services, domain names, proxy servers, and even the World Wide Web. I will endeavour to discuss these principles.

Many people are surprised when they realise the Internet and World Wide Web are not synonymous. The role of the World Wide Web is a key phase of the architectural formation of the web in itself: a system of hypertext coding accessed via the Internet. The coding is crucial in permitting millions of computers to interlink and share their knowledge. Without the coding, or mark-up language as its technically known, web functionality would be nonexistent. It is a model or skeleton built as an upper layer of the Internet. HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) is the most common language spoken over the Internet. However, this is only one of the many programming languages used to transmit data. Others include JSON (Java Script Object Notation) used to transmit more structured data between connections as an alternative to XML (Extensible Mark-up Language): a set of regulations enabling computers to speak to one another, both in written or verbal format across the Internet or similar local connections. The Transmission Control Protocol or Internet Protocol (abbreviated to TCP/IP) wer...

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...eb content to be launched and a proxy server will mediate between servers if there is a security issue. Your firewall will finally assess if information can pass to and from your system. This is a continuous and effective cycle allowing you to explore the flourishing opportunities out there on the Internet with little effort. Therefore, people can create innovations and “push the envelope of their possibilities” - Monte Reid.

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RFC1123 (n.d.) Internet engeneering task force, [online] Available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123 [Accessed: 19 Jan 2012].

W3C (n.d.) Architecture of the World Wide Web volume 1, [online] Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch [Accessed: 19 Jan].

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