What is the Internet?

The internet is a network that allows to to connect to other networks. In other words, it's like a group of computers that are connected to each and everyone of each other, therefore information passing through is enabled to go anywhere.  This allows us to have access to information of all sorts whenever and wherever we want. The internet is used as the most suitable and efficient way of passing information around, not only this but it is also incredibly fast that it just takes some uploading and emails to pass files around to people around the world. In fact, besides calling people, you can actually go online and meet with people online from different areas of the world to talk to them by sending each other with emails, or chatting in the chat box.


The Internet is used to offer service and do things that you can also do in real life such as Ebay, you can buy things off of the internet. In other cases you can chat with people like Facebook. Therefore, the internet is very helpful on thousands of occasions.


The Internet was created in the United States by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  It was first connected in an October of 1969, the World wide Web was then created in Switzerland. This was a great significance to everyone and opened doors to the world of learning for millions of people.


The way this differs from the traditional phone, is that unlike the phone, a phone number must be known in order to talk to people. The problem is, that the people you talk to are those that you already know. The internet however, allows you to meet with different people, chat with them and even share your thoughts and ideas and your perspective on things. You can even share bits of your life on it, and it is always the place for inspirations and things that even might change the world.


When information is passed on or uploaded, the bits and pieces of the files are passed around hopping on different networks to get to the place it was requested to go to. If one of the pieces were not passed on, the target destination sends a message to receive the missing pieces by sending the missing pieces again. Here's a Youtube video of me and my class doing a role play of the internet working. In slow motion compared to the real events happening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZB6rjeiUg&feature=player_embedded

Computer Systems Recap

From the past few weeks, we had faced a taken apart computer and we were instructed to attach the pieces together. Therefore we have learnt about each piece we were told to install. First of all there are 6 components to put together to make the computer function.

1)CPU- This is the part of the computer that does most of the processing. 

2) Case- This part keeps all other components together in place.

3)Motherboard- This is the part where connects all other components

4)Ram- Random Access Memory. This allows the information to be looked into or organized.

5)HHD- This plays the CDs

6)Power Supply- Supplies the power.