20 Things

20 Things About the Internet

What is the Internet?

A helpful place to start is near the very beginning: 1974.

Modern computing in the age of the internet is quite a strange, remarkable thing.

Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP): created a set of rules that allowed computers to "talk" to each other and send information back and forth.
Bandwith: an indication of how fast your connection is.
HTML: the web progrmming language that tells web browsers how to structure and present content on a web page.
Applications: programs or software
Plug-ins: invented to work aroudn the limitations of early HTML and deliver more interactive content

Browser extensions: let you add new features to your browser

Synchronization: lets you save your browser settings online, in the cloud, so they aren't lost even if your computer melts down

Cookies: play a key role in providing functionality that Internet users may want from websites: a memory of visits, in the past or in progress

IP Address: a series of numbers that tells us where a particular device is on the Internet network

Extended validation certificate: allows you to determine the name of the organization that runs the web site