How does the internet work?
hmm...this says it all really - "How does the internet work?" (Stanford University)What is iPhone Personal Hotspot? (Apple)What is a wifi dongle? (Telstra)What is a computer network? (Wikipedia)How computers talk to each other - Communications protocols (Wikipedia)Communications protocol definition (Webopedia)Network protocol definition (About.com)Egyptian heiroglyphs (Wikipedia)Sumerian language (Ancient History Encyclopedia)Ancient languages that haven't been figured out (mental_floss)How to speak like a Russian spy (TV Tropes)What is computer handshaking? (Wikipedia)Handshaking definition (Webopedia)A dial up modem handshaking (YouTube)A fax machine handshaking (YouTube)ADSL definition (Webopedia)ADSL doesn't use voice telephone call frequencies, it's like a quiet handshake (Wikipedia)Myspace (Wikipedia)The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Wikipedia)The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Webopedia)Packet definition (Webopedia)Network packet (Wikipedia)How the internet sends packets & stuff - Internet protocol suite (Wikipedia)TCP/IP definition (Webopedia)How to make French onion soup (BBC goodfood)Different ways to cut carrots (the Kitchn)DARPA & the invention of the internet (DARPA)History of the internet (Wikipedia)How to make a string & cup telephone (Science Kids)ISP definition (Webopedia)What is an Internet Service Provider? (Wikipedia)There are a few very big 'Tier 1' ISPs who control the most internet (Wikipedia)The main 'highways' - The internet backbone (Wikipedia)The internet map"Beautiful, intriguing and illegal ways to map the internet" (Wired)Melways mapsWhich way should we go on the internet? - Routing (Wikipedia)A visualisation of routing paths (Wikipedia)The submarine cable map (TeleGeography)"10 facts about the internet's undersea cables" (mental_floss)Trans-Pacific internet cables - Southern Cross Cables (Wikipedia)Trans-Atlantic internet cables (Wikipedia)List of international submarine communications cables (Wikipedia)"The internet's undersea world" (The Guardian)How a ship lays fibre optic cables (YouTube)Data travels at pretty much the speed of light through a fibre optic cable (Extreme Tech)The Mariana Trench (Wikipedia)"The worldwide internet backbone map" (Tianjin University of Technology)"Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia" (The Guardian)"Ship's anchor accidentally slices internet cable cutting off access in six African countries" (Daily Mail Australia)What is a web server? (Wikipedia)A photo of the world's first web server (Wikipedia)What is a content delivery network? (Wikipedia)"Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers" (StreamingMediaBlog)"Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place" (StreamingMediaBlog)What is a cache? (Wikipedia)What is time to live? (Wikipedia)What are point-to-point telecommunications? (Wikipedia)DouglasAdams.comThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)Sub-Etha Communications from the Hitchhiker's Guide (Wikipedia)The internet was once called ARPANET (Wikipedia)What is an Ethernet cable? (About.com)Cables are usually made out of copper or glass - Physical media (Wikipedia)"Why is fibre optic technology 'faster' than copper?" (ABC)One way people found stuff on the early web - The Gopher protocol (Wikipedia)The internet is an 'INTERconnected computer NETwork' (Wikipedia)The World Wide Web is what we 'see' on the internet (Wikipedia)History of the graphical user interface (Wikipedia)Pictures of what screens used to look like (Nathan's Toasty Technology page)The first ever web page! (CERN)The man who invented the World Wide Web and hyperlinks (Wikipedia)What is a hyperlink? (Wikipedia)What is FTP? (Wikipedia)"The web is dead. Long live the internet" (Wired)"Is the Web Dying? It Doesn’t Look That Way" (The New York Times)What is Chrome? (Google)What is Safari? (Apple)Responsive web design means content adapts to any device (Wikipedia)App making software products (TopTen reviews)What are Apple Developer tools? (Apple)What is an app? (Wikipedia)Skype is more than 10 years old (Skype)Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Wikipedia)What was Hotmail Messenger? (YouTube)Skype Instant Messenger explained by a guy in a grey t-shirt (YouTube)Did people REALLY used to chat to each other in the olden days? (LinkedIn)HumphreyBogart.comCheeky review? (If we may be so bold)
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