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For the Bit
A single bit, or binary digit, has this many options for what number it could be.
What is two? (A bit can be 0 or 1.)
As the foundation of the Internet, this base layer consists of things like radio waves, wires, and deep-sea cables.
What is the physical layer?
This protocol adds sender and destination addresses to packets in order to help them reach the correct place.
What is IP? (Where did you come from, where did you go...)
The pages of the World Wide Web are written in this language, known for its use of tags such as <body>.
What is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?
This is the decimal equivalent of the binary number 110.
What is 6? (Because 4 + 2 + 0 = 6)
The Internet is sometimes confused to be equivalent to this system of interlinked online pages, invented by Sir Tim Berners Lee. (However, they are NOT the same.)
What is the World Wide Web?
This is the first protocol that helps a computer break messages into packets, creates headers for each packet that identifies the data, and assigns a port to the message.
This what the <p> tag refers to.
What is a paragraph?
If you are limited to a single byte of data, then 256 is the lowest number that would cause this kind of error.
What is overflow? (Because 11111111 = 255... any higher will take more than 8 bits.)
Using IPv4, over 4 billion device addresses are possible. Since that isn't enough, transitions are being made to this system, which allows around 3 x 1038 address combinations.
What is IPv6?
This term describes the capacity a network has to send/receive packets at any given time. (Not to be confused with latency.)
What is bandwidth?
HTML pages cannot be displayed without this software, which includes examples like Safari.
What is a web browser?
This is the binary equivalent of a capital letter 'A', which an ASCII table encodes with the decimal value of 65.
What is 1000001? (because 64 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 65)
Since more intelligent computers are at the "edge" while dumber machines are in the "core", the Internet is sometimes described as this kind of network, abbreviated "e2e".
What is end-to-end?
Sometimes data packets need to be compressed to save digital space. For data that might later need to be decompressed back to its original state, you should use this method.
What is lossless compression? (Remember that lossy compression cannot be undone.)
HTML is sometimes confused with this web data communication protocol, which often appears at the beginning of URLs.
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
This is the decimal value of the following color pixel's green amount. (00000001, 00000010, 00000100)
What is 2? (Because color pixels use RGB --> middle number is Green --> binary 10 = decimal 2.)
One of the best ways to prevent faults in a network like the Internet is this practice of duplicating important components. (For example, having two or more paths to get from node A to node B.)
What is redundancy?
Imagine a scenario where you must complete processes P and Q.
P takes 30 seconds, and Q takes 45 seconds.
This is the amount of time you can save by using parallel processing with 2 processors instead of 1.
What is 30 sec? (Because 1 processor takes 75 sec, while 2 processors take 45 sec total.)
In HTML, this is what you'd create if you write, for example,
<a href="www.youtube.com"> Click me </a>
What is a hyperlink (or link)?