Little Timmy is never going to start driving a 3D train
Episode 3 · Audio file · April 29th, 2016 · 53 mins 13 secs
How does the internet work?
- hmm...this says it all really - "How does the internet work?" (Stanford University)
- What is iPhone Personal Hotspot? (Apple)
- What is a wifi dongle? (Telstra)
- What is a computer network? (Wikipedia)
- How computers talk to each other - Communications protocols (Wikipedia)
- Communications protocol definition (Webopedia)
- Network protocol definition (About.com)
- Egyptian heiroglyphs (Wikipedia)
- Sumerian language (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
- Ancient languages that haven't been figured out (mental_floss)
- How to speak like a Russian spy (TV Tropes)
- What is computer handshaking? (Wikipedia)
- Handshaking definition (Webopedia)
- A dial up modem handshaking (YouTube)
- A fax machine handshaking (YouTube)
- ADSL definition (Webopedia)
- ADSL doesn't use voice telephone call frequencies, it's like a quiet handshake (Wikipedia)
- Myspace (Wikipedia)
- The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Wikipedia)
- The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Webopedia)
- Packet definition (Webopedia)
- Network packet (Wikipedia)
- How the internet sends packets & stuff - Internet protocol suite (Wikipedia)
- TCP/IP definition (Webopedia)
- How to make French onion soup (BBC goodfood)
- Different ways to cut carrots (the Kitchn)
- DARPA & the invention of the internet (DARPA)
- History of the internet (Wikipedia)
- How to make a string & cup telephone (Science Kids)
- ISP definition (Webopedia)
- What is an Internet Service Provider? (Wikipedia)
- There are a few very big 'Tier 1' ISPs who control the most internet (Wikipedia)
- The main 'highways' - The internet backbone (Wikipedia)
- The internet map
- "Beautiful, intriguing and illegal ways to map the internet" (Wired)
- Melways maps
- Which way should we go on the internet? - Routing (Wikipedia)
- A visualisation of routing paths (Wikipedia)
- The submarine cable map (TeleGeography)
- "10 facts about the internet's undersea cables" (mental_floss)
- Trans-Pacific internet cables - Southern Cross Cables (Wikipedia)
- Trans-Atlantic internet cables (Wikipedia)
- List of international submarine communications cables (Wikipedia)
- "The internet's undersea world" (The Guardian)
- How a ship lays fibre optic cables (YouTube)
- Data travels at pretty much the speed of light through a fibre optic cable (Extreme Tech)
- The Mariana Trench (Wikipedia)
- "The worldwide internet backbone map" (Tianjin University of Technology)
- "Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia" (The Guardian)
- "Ship's anchor accidentally slices internet cable cutting off access in six African countries" (Daily Mail Australia)
- What is a web server? (Wikipedia)
- A photo of the world's first web server (Wikipedia)
- What is a content delivery network? (Wikipedia)
- "Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers" (StreamingMediaBlog)
- "Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place" (StreamingMediaBlog)
- What is a cache? (Wikipedia)
- What is time to live? (Wikipedia)
- What are point-to-point telecommunications? (Wikipedia)
- DouglasAdams.com
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)
- Sub-Etha Communications from the Hitchhiker's Guide (Wikipedia)
- The internet was once called ARPANET (Wikipedia)
- What is an Ethernet cable? (About.com)
- Cables are usually made out of copper or glass - Physical media (Wikipedia)
- "Why is fibre optic technology 'faster' than copper?" (ABC)
- One way people found stuff on the early web - The Gopher protocol (Wikipedia)
- The internet is an 'INTERconnected computer NETwork' (Wikipedia)
- The World Wide Web is what we 'see' on the internet (Wikipedia)
- History of the graphical user interface (Wikipedia)
- Pictures of what screens used to look like (Nathan's Toasty Technology page)
- The first ever web page! (CERN)
- The man who invented the World Wide Web and hyperlinks (Wikipedia)
- What is a hyperlink? (Wikipedia)
- What is FTP? (Wikipedia)
- "The web is dead. Long live the internet" (Wired)
- "Is the Web Dying? It Doesn’t Look That Way" (The New York Times)
- What is Chrome? (Google)
- What is Safari? (Apple)
- Responsive web design means content adapts to any device (Wikipedia)
- App making software products (TopTen reviews)
- What are Apple Developer tools? (Apple)
- What is an app? (Wikipedia)
- Skype is more than 10 years old (Skype)
- Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Wikipedia)
- What was Hotmail Messenger? (YouTube)
- Skype Instant Messenger explained by a guy in a grey t-shirt (YouTube)
- Did people REALLY used to chat to each other in the olden days? (LinkedIn)
- HumphreyBogart.com
