I enjoyed reading this online book, with the url: http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US. It was very informative about the nitty gritty about the internet. I had no idea what URL meant or that apps are simply web browser applications that are very safe because they don't require you to have to download anything. I also knew nothing about how the internet was started, or the TCP/IP, or Internet Protocol Suite. One of the things that I kind of already knew about was that emails or pictures or any data sent to another place on the internet is broken up into smaller pieces. The book explains that these smaller chunks are "packets." The more packets you can send, the larger the "bandwidth," or the amount of data you can send over your interconnection per second.
I've also wondered what "the cloud" was because I've seen it promoted on television commercials. What the cloud means is that data can migrate beyond the boundaries of your computer and can be accessed anywhere around the world. Even if a truck crushes your computer, your data can still be accessed on an internet-connected computer. I enjoyed this book; I especially liked that it was like a real book.
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