Unit 4 - Internet and Transport - Increasing Connectedness

Question 1

What is the internet and how has it developed?

Answer 1

• computers got smaller (used to take up whole rooms)
• 1971 - emails were able to be sent
• 1991 - world wide web was invented
• early 90s- Dial-up-connecting to the internet via a telephone line

Question 2

What influences geographical isolation in terms of internet?

Answer 2

• amount of natural resources
• whether countries are land locked
• remoteness
• extreme terrain or climate
• e.g. Tibet, Amazon Rainforest

Question 3

What are the social media trends (to do with internet)?

Answer 3

• social media has overtaken - pornography as the no 1 activity on the web
• 1 from 8 couples in the US met via social media
• Facebook added over 200 million users in their 3rd year
• 80% of companies use social media for recruitment
• Wikipedia has over 15 million articles
• people care more how social graph ranks products than what google says

Question 4

How are countries physically connected in terms of internet?

Answer 4

• Fibre optic cables
  light goes in on one side and out on the other
  most underneath the ocean
  Fibre optic cables are connected to landing stations on each coast

Question 5

When was the world wide web (www) invented?

Answer 5

• World wide web was invented in 1991

Question 6

What does internet allow?

Answer 6

• Internet allows quick communication between the receiver and the deliverer
• Internet makes route planning easier as traffic can be seen in advance
• Internet is used for logistic

Question 7

How significant is the internet in our lives?

Answer 7

• the internet takes up more and more significance in our lives
• people get dependent on it