The Internet?

What is the difference between the Internet and the Web? How does the Internet work?

Have you ever wondered? Good.

Explore these idea and more. Create a new Google Doc in your CS120\Research folder; in it, answer or discuss the following items. Use formatting and text effects to make the document clean and understandable, not just your answers all lumped together. Use footnotes for your citations.

• Research each of the following and summarize summarize in your own words what they mean. Include citations as footnotes.*
  1. Internet
  2. Web
  3. TCP/IP
  4. HTTP
  5. DNS
  6. IP address
  7. Domain Name
  8. URL
• Find an IP address (DNS lookup) for each of three sites that you frequent.
  e.g. bluecc.edu Links to an external site. => 38.106.5.170 Links to an external site.. (Note: you will need to use an online DNS lookup tool for this, e.g. http://ping.eu/nslookup/ Links to an external site.)
• Find an article about a recent cyber attack. Write a brief summary of the article and include a proper citation*.

* at least one source should be something other than Wikipedia. Proper citations for electronic source can be found here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ Links to an external site.. Here's an example of an electronic citation:

Brain & Crawford. “How Domain Name Servers Work.” How Stuff Works Tech. computer.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm. Accessed 1 November 2016.

Be sure to add a link to this research document on your WordPress Links to an external site. portfolio page.