Telecommunications Explorer
Explore the World Wide Web by following the links and answering
the following questions on paper. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow!
1. Based on our class discussion, define telecommunications.
Search Encarta (http://encarta.msn.com) to help you discover some of the history of telecommunications - search for "telecommunications history":
2. List three ways that many communicated over distances prior to the 1800s.
3. What event in history ushered in the modern telecommunication age?
4. What form of telecommunication was invented in the 1840s?
5. How was this improved in the early 1900s?
6. List five other telecommunications developments from the 1900s.
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7. Review how information travels over the internet. (Go
to the Journey Inside)
Fill in the blanks:
When you connect to a Web site through ISP and start exchanging ___________, there isn't a fixed connection between your _________ and the Web ___________computer hosting the Web site. Instead, information is exchanged using the ______possible path at that particular time.
Link to the following major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and answer
questions 8-11.
http://www.aol.com/ (America OnLine)
http://my.msn.com/ (MicroSoftNetwork)
http://att.net/ (AT&T
WorldNet)
http://www.juno.com/ (Juno)
8. Do all of these ISPs offer e-mail?
9. Do they all offer chat rooms?
10. What other special features do they offer?
11. Based on your review of these ISP pages, what do you think would be the most popular service that Internet Service Providers offer?___________________________________________________________________________
In your own words, define the following terms:
12. Hypertext
13. URL
14. Spider
15. Baud Rate
16. Modem
17. What is the difference between Upload and Download?
18. What is the difference between the World
Wide Web and the Internet?
If time permits, view the Internet video on Intel's Journey Inside
website.
(Click
here) If you have trouble interacting
with the Journey Inside website, or have trouble viewing the movies, see their
recommendations here, and download appropriate plug-ins.
Created
by Diane Walters
West Millbrook Middle
School, Raleigh, NC.
© Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved
Send Questions and Comments to: Diane
Walters
Last updated: August 3, 2003.