Chapter 1
Introduction

By now, you should be familiar with many of the topics found in this chapter. Look at the topics below and assess yourself. Which ones could you explain to others? Which ones are unknown to you?

• The Internet
  • Should be familiar to you
  • Do your parents use it?
  • What about your grandparents?
  • What about preschool children in your family?
  • Vast network of connected computers
    • Servers
    • Clients
    • Client-Server Model
    • Social Computing
• Netiquette
  • Flaming
  • Newbies
• Cyberspace*, Hyperspace, Hypermedia, and Hypertext
  • Virtual worlds
  • Cyberspace includes electronic connections and the people using them
    • Hyperspace a part of cyberspace that includes all Internet nodes and pages
      • Hypermedia consists of all types of online information
        • Hypertext consists of the textual portions of cyberspace
    • Estimate 50 billion nodes by 2020
• Internet Software Tools
  • e-Mail
  • Listservers
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
  • TELNET
  • FAQs
  • Gopher
  • WWW
  • Social Media
• Key Themes
  • Bottom-Up Organization
  • Democratization
  • Fake News*
  • Open Internet*
  • 99.999%
  • Speed
  • Time Zones

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