 OMSI/WinterHaven PSD2000 Project:
Inquiry Sessions | Portfolio | Resources | Teaching Guide
Inquiry Session 1: Internet History, Technology, Geography
Go on a scavenger hunt through the World Wide Web to learn how the Internet and Web began, how they work, and what they look like now.
Internet History | Internet Technology | Internet Geography
Internet History
 In the late 1950s, the US Federal Government's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was founded and began working on a nationwide computer network linking research universities called the ARPANET. By 1989, the ARPANET had become what we now call the "Internet."
Explore Internet pioneering corporation Bolt, Beranek and Newman's Internet Timeline to learn more about the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web: http://www.bbn.com/timeline/index.html
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SCAVENGER HUNT: Use the BBN Timeline to answer the following questions:
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When was the first email sent? |
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Who is head of state in the USSR when the ARPANET linked more than 1,000 host computers? |
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When was the World Wide Web launched? |
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Internet Technology
 Wondering how your client uses TCP/IP to render HTML from a URL at the host? We use the Internet and Web everyday, but the technology behind them often seems like a foreign language. Use your "client" (the computer you are using) to access information from a "host" (another computer connected to a network like the Internet) and become fluent in Internet and Web technology.
Explore How Stuff Work's Internet website to learn how web pages, web servers, and the Internet work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-internet.htm
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SCAVENGER HUNT: Go to How Stuff Works to answer the following questions:
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What's the difference between a domain name and an IP address? |
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What does a "markup language" (like HTML) do? |
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Can you eat an Internet "cookie"? |
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Internet Geography
 What would a map of the Internet look like? The Internet spreads all over the world, but because almost anyone can connect a computer to the Internet, nobody knows for sure how big it really is. The science of mapping the Internet is called "cybergeography"--the study of cyberspace.
Explore the Atlas of Cyberspaces at the CyberGeography.org website to see different maps and pictures of the Internet and the World Wide Web: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
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SCAVENGER HUNT: Use the Atlas of Cyberspaces at CyberGeography.org to answer the following questions:
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Is there an undersea Internet cable between the US and Japan? |
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Find a country that was not connected to the Internet in September, 1991. |
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Who wrote the novel Neuromancer, in which many people say cyberspace was described for the first time? |
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