What is the Internet?

If a 5-year-old asked you “What is the Internet?”
how would you answer?

Internet Brainstorm

What do we use the Internet for?

How do we access the Internet?

Who pays for the Internet, and who gets paid?

The Internet
vs
The World Wide Web

What’s the difference?

• The Internet

  A global system of interconnected computer networks.
  The Internet is a network
  of computer networks.

• World Wide Web

  A system of interlinked documents, accessed via the Internet.
  The Web is a network
  of documents and media.

Chorus owns the Southern Cross Cable

They could slow down international requests for other ISPs

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Kinda like telephones!

The Internet can be compared to the telephone system:

• Nobody owns the whole thing
• Companies do control individual parts
• Telephone numbers and IP addresses are unique
• There is no central control room

The Internet: Complete!

Great, now let’s explore where we’ll build our own site…

Take me to the next chapter!