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A preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It's the original drawing from which something real might be built or created.
Prototype
A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
Protocol
Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
Packets
Reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics.
Abstraction
A way of representing information using only two options.
Binary
A question to which there are only two possible answers.
Binary Question
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is the universally recognized raw text format that any computer can understand.
ASCII
A computer which receives messages traveling across a network and redirects them towards their intended destinations based on the addressing information included with the message.
Router
A computer that awaits and responds to requests for data.
Server
Transmission capacity measure by bit rate.
Bandwith
A message that can only be one of two possible values.
Binary Message
(v) to write code, or to write instructions for a computer.
Code
Provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP writing.
Transmission Control Protocol
A computer that requests data stored on a server.
Client
Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.
Latency
A contraction of "Binary Digit". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
Bit
documents are how standards and protocols are defined and published for all to see on the IETF website.
Request for Comments (RFC)
an abbreviation for Domain Name System, the Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses.
DNS
The principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers.
Net Neutrality
develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
(IETF) Internet Engineering Task Force
(sometimes written bitrate) The number
Bit Rate
A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet
IP Address
the protocol used by the World Wide Web. It describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to commands
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof.
Innovation
A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
Internet