Technology Myths, Busted!

Technology Myths, Busted! — page 1 — Busted The World Wide Web and the Internet Are Identical Many people use the terms World Wide Web and Internet to mean the THINK ABOUT IT same thing But these systems are not the same The World Wide Web Based on what you read what is the difference between the is a part of the Internet Internet and the Web The Internet is a global network of computers They are linked together computers and other devices how to by several protocols Protocols talk to each other are special sets of rules They tell The Internet is actually a network of networks It began its life as a Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web in

Technology Myths, Busted! — page 2 — military sponsored research network World Wide Web It was simple yet The military created the Advanced revolutionary He built a Web page Research Project Agency Network that displayed text and photographs ARPANET in 1969 In the 1970s But most important it linked to and 1980s ARPANET expanded other pages This created a web of It included universities and other information The World Wide Web research organizations throughout is made up of servers Servers are the world In the late 1980s the computers that store Web pages Internet became public Everyone could use it It included a variety of ways to communicate or move files photographs and videos These servers are part of the much larger Internet Without the Internet the Web could not exist around Users could e mail transfer files participate in newsgroups and In 1990 the first Web browser was chat together created It kicked off decades of In 1989 Tim Berners Lee designed a new way to share information growth for the Web Today the Web is huge People use Web browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer to navigate it But it on the Internet He called it the makes up only a portion of the vast Internet The Internet also includes 966 million peer to peer file sharing and instant messaging It includes video and audio streaming and gaming It also Estimated number of live websites as of includes e mail and chat Video December 2015 streaming is using more and more of the Internet's bandwidth Netflix is a video streaming service It accounts The Internet began as a military research network in 1969 for 35 percent of Internet traffic Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 The World Wide Web is a part of the

Technology Myths, Busted! — page 3 — Busted The QWERTY Keyboard Just kept Keys from Jamming In 1867 newspaper editor Christopher Sholes patented the typewriter Until recently most They were the first people to use Sholes's typewriters They typed out messages in Morse code This code uses specific letter combinations Some combinations are used more historians thought he designed the keyboard to prevent jams Sholes first tried arranging the letters alphabetically But typists found the metal keys got stuck than others The operators used S Z and E frequently So Sholes moved those letters closer together together when they typed quickly So Sholes rearranged the keyboard The sequence he created is called QWERTY Today's keyboards use this DVORAK KEYBOARDS layout Sholes did redesign the keyboard to make it easier for users But In the 1930s August Dvorak designed a keyboard Its middle row of keys includes the most common letters in English These letters are A o EU I D H T N S The majority of English words use one or more of these letters Dvorak the problem was not stuck keys It was typing efficiency Recently researchers discovered Sholes actually may have redesigned the keyboard for telegraph operators claimed this made typing easier and faster Today the Dvorak keyboard is rarely

Technology Myths, Busted! — page 4 — olo No a QIWIE RT McK At Ctrl The QWERTY keyboard made it more efficient for telegraph operators to type The QWERTY keyboard evolved to help the telegraph operators type faster Later teletype machines adopted the keyboard the operators were already familiar with QWERTY 100 000 Sholes also made a deal with Number of typewriters with QWERTY keyboards used in the United States by 1890 Remington to sell his typewriters They became widely used The QWERTY keyboard has stuck around until this day But it was not invented in response to stuck keys Christopher Sholes patented the typewriter in 1867 The QWERTY keyboard evolved to help telegraph operators type faster Most keyboards today still follow the same

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