Tuesday 8 February 2011

S2W4 Wednesday: What the Net runs on, iPhone killer, Professor Teaches Quiz, WebQuest and Website Projects

1. What the Net runs on

Fibre-optic submarine communications cables carry the majority of Internet traffic. Today, take a chance to learn a little about this technochlogy which has a 200 year history:





 Here is a map of the cables laid in 1901:




Here's what a crosssection of those cable looks like today:
How Cables are Laid




2008 Submarine Cable Disruption

The beginning of 2008saw the severing of several important underwater cables. Have a read:


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2. iPhone Killer?




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3. WebQuest and Website Projects

Please continue with your website projects and complete WebQuests - I'll be coming around to consult with you on these projects
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think it is kinda weird that so many people here use the internet but the internet connnection still SUCKS!!! its not fair :(

Anonymous said...

no wonder my downloads go down to 600 B/s

Anonymous said...

It is possible to ask for the impossible but the world is advancing quiet rapidly i reckon and we are lucky as to be in an stranded island and still have some decent internet. As of the i Phone killer thing it is very possible, even now, i have no intention in getting an i Phone whatsoever because i have a HTC smart-phone and i am quite comfortable with it. wouldn't change it for an i Phone

Anonymous said...

Whhoaaaa.. You think there'd be more people using the internet in places other then The states and australia..

Anonymous said...

:3

Anonymous said...

I don't think this iPhone killer will sell more than an iPhone.. ive had every new iPhone that came out and everytime they have got better. I just can't see this phone selling more.

Anonymous said...

wow that is a looong cable, I wonder how long it took to lay it all down?