You think you know the internet?
Small chunks of one whole data sent individually throughout the web on their own path.
What are packets?
Scientific research that the general population helps to conduct.
What is a citizen science?
A sequence of characters.
What is a string?
A command that executes the code within a function.
What is a function call?
Asking lots of users online to help with something like funding a project.
What is crowdsourcing?
The ability of the net to keep working even as the size of the network and the amount of traffic over the network increase.
What is scalability?
An alternative to copyright that allows people to declare how they want their artistic creations to be shared/remixed in noncommercial contexts.
What is a Creative Commons?
Programs are broken into small pieces, some of which run simultaneously.
The process of accessing each item in a list one at a time.
What is a traversal?
A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
What is intellectual property?
Connection points that link pathways.
What are nodes?
Provides timely but unreliable message delivery.
What is User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?
Enables a good solution to be found in reasonable time even if it's not the best solution.
What is a heuristic?
Programs are run by multiple devices.
What is Distributed Computing?
A process for creating a digital representation of analog data by measuring the analog data at regular intervals.
What is Sampling?
Used by many websites for encryption to protect filed and information that is transmitted over the internet. Issued to verify the identification of a person or computer.
What is Certificate Authorities?
The art of protecting information by transforming it into an unreadable format, called cipher text.
An estimation of the amount of computational resources used by an algorithm.
A common method for referencing the elements in a list or string using numbers.
What is Index?
Online research output free of restrictions to access and use.
What is Open Access?
A programming language that captures only the most primitive operations available to a machine. Anything that a computer can do can be represented with combinations of these commands.
What is a Low Level Programming Language?
Perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely interfering with services of a host connected to the Internet.
What is a DDoS Attack?
The level of efficiency that describes algorithms which run in reasonable time.
var steps = 0
while(steps < 4){
moveForward();
}
How many steps until the loop eneds?
What is 4?
The amount of time a data packet takes to travel from one point to another, AKA the delay between the time data is sent and received measured in milliseconds.
What is latency?