Intro to the Internet

Who owns and controls the internet?

• nobody or everybody, depending on how you look at it

• Bill Gates

• the US government

• Google

Which of these DOES NOT describe the internet?

• a philosophy of making information and knowledge accessible to all

• a network of networks

• it is built on agreed upon protocols

• it is run from one central server

What is the name for the widely agreed upon set of rules that standardize communication between machines?

• bandwidth

• protocols

• packets

• routers

True or False? As of 2014, the majority of the world was online.

• True

• False

Choose all of words that are impacts of the internet.

• collaboration

• censorship

• crowdsourcing

• communication

• access to information

____________ allows consumers to find the best price, buy directly from sellers, and allows sellers to operate without a physical store.

• Bitcoin

• Internet protocols

• E-commerce

• Packets

True or False? GPS requires an internet connection.

• True

• False

Which of these IS NOT a legal or ethical concern about the internet?

• access to copyrighted material

• anonymity

• collaboration

• censorship