The internet

The World Wide Web

A collection of interconnected networks

A place where a huge amount of information is stored

A single network controlled by a central computer

Tim Berners-Lee

The US security service

A syndicate of Universities and Government organisations

Nobody

When emailing a friend

When booking a cinema ticket online

When using Instagram

When using Tik Tok

A search engine

A web address

A web browser

A website

Anyone can choose whatever website address they want

Every website in the world has a unique address

www.mylife.com is another way of writing the address www.mylife.net

www.mylife.fr is a valid address for a website based in the UK

has a unique corresponding IP address such as 84.160.131.1

is the same address as www.fishnchips.com

is not a valid web address

is the web address of a company based in Ukraine

.bin

.jpg

.org

.http

A way of transmitting data

A set of rules

a network configuration

part of a a web address

the number of characters in the packet

the speed at which it is to be transmitted

the route that the packet is to take

the ‘from’ and ‘to’ addresses and the number of the packet

Each packet contains the entire message being sent

All packets travel via the same route from sender to recipient

Any type of data (e.g. text, sound, images, video) can be sent

The sender decides how many packets are to be used