How the Internet Works
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The Cloud
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World Wide Web
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Address: IP, URL, DNS, TLDs, gTLDs
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How a Search Engine Works
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Digging a Little Deeper - What is HTTP, HTML and Cookies?
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Data Centers
NOTE: A petabyte (PB) is 1,000 terabytes (TB) or 1,000,000 gigabytes (GB) or 1,000,000,000 (MB)
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Click here to take a virtual tour of the Google Data center using Google Street View.
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Laying Undersea Cables
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Watch what it takes to lay Google's super-fast submarine Internet cable. The FASTER cable linking the U.S. and Japan will have a peak capacity of 60 terabits per second when it starts operating next year.
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1 Terabyte = 1,000, 000, 000, 000 Bytes
Google's super-fast Internet cable has a peak capacity of 60 Terabits per second = 7,500,000, 000, 000 Bytes per second. ACDS has 100MB of bandwidth for the school or 100,000,000 Bytes Google's super-fast Internet Cable carries 75,000 times more data than ACDS. The average ACDS user gets 15MB bandwidth. Google's super-fast Internet Cable can carry 500,000 ACDS users. |
Spooky Stuff
How Does Your Web Browser Know Your Location?
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How internet advertisers read your mind | The Economist
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