Internet Discussion Links & Questions

• History and Background
  History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov
  • History of the Internet from ISOC
  • The First Web Page
  • Alex Simonis, A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies, ACM Ubiquity, 6:5, February 15 - 22, 2005.
• Statistics
  • World Internet Usage Stats
  • OECD Broadband Statistics
  • Demographics of US Internet Users
• Video

  • Net Neutrality

    From Public Knowledge	From Hands off the Internet

  • Stephen Colbert & Jonathan Zittrain discuss the future of the Internet
  • Warriors of the Net
  • Moyers on America

Questions

1. Who invented the Internet? Who invented the World Wide Web? Why?

2. What is the difference between the Internet and the Web?

3. What is the Internet Protocol (IP)? What are IPv4 and IPv6?

4. What is the Domain Name System?

5. Who governs the Internet?

6. What is Network Neutrality? What are the principal arguments for and against Net Neutrality? Who is on each side?