CONTENTS The Internet 4 Video Games 6 Space Vehicles 8 Cell Phones 10 Robots 12 Clothing 14 Cars 16 Cameras 10 18 Television 20 Nanotechnology 22 Food 24 Music 26 True or False 28 Who Knew 30 Source Note 31 Further Information 31
4 THE INTERNET Did you know online information has weight It's true Downloading a book from the Internet onto a reading device actually makes the device weigh more So just how heavy is information Not very heavy as it turns out All the information on the Internet weighs only about as much as one strawberry Ever wonder how the search engine Google got its name The number one followed by one hundred zeros is called a googol Google's inventors liked the sound of that Q What does http mean A It stands for hypertext transfer protocol That's the system used to transmit messages on the Internet In which decade was the Internet invented A The 1980s B The 1990s C The 1960s D The 2000s The answer is C although back then the Internet was used only by the US Department of Defense
5 Q What does www mean A It stands for World Wide Web Many people think the World Wide Web is the same thing as the Internet but it's not The word Internet refers to the communications network that connects computer networks around the world The term World Wide Web refers to the part of the Internet that you can use to find information The country with the highest number of Internet users is A China B United States C Russia D Japan It's A China The United States and India follow closely behind You probably know that spam is junk e mail But that isn't all it is Spam is also the name for a canned meat product first sold in 1937
