Hardware
This is the connection, built into our computers, that allows us to access the hardwired internet in dorm rooms.
What is the ethernet port?
These are the two possible values of a "bit" of binary code.
What are 0 and 1?
These two men are credited with inventing the Internet
Who are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn?
These are the three realms of impact we consider when discussing technology
What are social, cultural, and economic?
This co-founder of Google has a search algorithm named after him.
Who is Larry Page?
This is what CPU stands for.
What is Central Processing Unit?
8 bits are called this.
What is a byte?
These special cables carry signals, in the form of light, extremely long distances.
What are fiber optic cables?
Many people feel that the repeal of net neutrality laws threatens this key principal of the internet, which ensures equal access and speed to all services.
What is reliability?
These devices act as traffic signals for information as it travels through the internet. They send packets on various paths based on internet traffic and relationships with service providers.
What are routers?
This is the "brain" of a computer, which connects many pieces of hardware to one another.
What is the motherboard?
This is the set of organized steps, written in code, that a computer follows to achieve a task.
This word refers to the measurement of how long it takes for bits to travel from their source to their destination.
What is latency?
This is one of four states that has enacted its own net neutrality law since the repeal of federal laws that were first enacted during Barack Obama's presidency.
What is California, Vermont, Oregon, or Washington?
This form of data security uses a public key to send data to specific recipients, and a private key for that recipient to decrypt the information.
What is asymmetric encryption?
BONUS: What is symmetric encryption?
This is what RAM stands for.
What is Random Access Memory?
These are the individual pieces of data being manipulated when you change an image with Photoshop.
What are pixels?
This protocol ensures that all packets arrive to their destination and are in the correct order.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
BONUS: What is the other protocol for delivering packets?
This is one possible economic impact from the repeal of net neutrality.
What is growth of profit for Internet Service Providers?
What is increased cost of service for consumers?
What is increased barrier of entry for new websites?
This is an example of machine learning.
What are revised search results based on the behaviors of users?
This type of wire is used to send signals from one device to another. It is usually used for local area networks, but the signal gets weaker if it is used for very long distances.
What is ethernet?
This 4 bit binary number represents the decimal system number "10."
What is 1010?
This is a coding language that describes how information should be presented on a website. It includes instructions for displaying images and text that will be displayed on the screen.
What is HTML?
This is one cultural impact of Photoshop.
What is a lack of trust in digital images and media?
This tiny piece of technology is the reason that CPU's keep getting smaller, and why your supercomputer phone can fit in your pocket.
What is a transistor?