Sending Binary Messages Vocabulary
What is a bit?
The single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
What is the Internet?
A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
What is a IP Address?
A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.
What is Latency?
What is Net Neutrality?
The principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers.
What provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet.
What is TCP?
A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
What is a new or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof?
What is Innovation?
Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information.
What is protocol?
What is a transmission capacity measure by bit rate?
What is Bandwidth?
What is DNS?
What is system translates domain names (like example.com) to IP addresses (like 93.184.216.34)
What is binary?
A way of representing information using only two options.
What is bit rate?
What is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. e.g. 8 bits/sec.
What is Internet Engineering Task Force - develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
What is a router?
A type of computer that forwards data across a network.