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How The Internet Works. Teaching computational thinking to primary pupils. Computational Thinking on Pinterest. Computer Science Unplugged. There and Back Again: A Packet’s Tale. How Does the Internet Work? Quite Possibly the Most Brilliant Thing Ever — A Map of the Internet, Drawn to Scale. O Click on the image above to expand, or click here to see the full-resolution version.

Quite Possibly the Most Brilliant Thing Ever — A Map of the Internet, Drawn to Scale

From artist Martin Vargic comes this beautiful, ultra-high-resolution fictional map of the internet — scaled using actual from Alexa to rank the top 500 or so websites by traffic in the entire world. According to Vargic, it took 3 weeks of 10-hour days to create, basing the project off of National Geographic maps. And it's still a work in progress, detailing just a miniscule portion of the entire internet. Here's his explanation of how the whole thing fits together: "The map is divided into 2 distinctive parts; the eastern continent, 'the old world' showcases software companies, gaming companies and some of the more real-life oriented websites. The scale between a website's traffic and its size is not exact, but websites are generally portrayed in ratio relative to it. " The final result is mezmerizing, with entire continents representing sectors of the web. Tom McKay. Different ways forward in education. In celebration of National Computer Science week, I am republishing this post.

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ENJOY! What will the world look like in 10 years? The digital world is such a dynamic world. That’s what I love about it. But how can we possible know or even imagine what our world is going to look like 10, even 5 years from now? Regardless of what country we come from, what culture we grow up in, and what economic conditions we live in…we all must solve the problems in our world……our local world…and our global world. What is Computer Science? So, how do we do that? Computer Science teaches students how to use build something, maybe a new tool, using technology, computation thinking, imagination, logic, problem solving, and creativity. The Story of Send. An Efficient Server Floor Your message then enters our server floor.

The Story of Send

Our servers support many products at a time — that’s “the cloud.” It means we can do more with less — more searches and more Gmail with fewer servers and less energy. In fact, our data centers are some of the most efficient in the world, using 50% less energy than typical data centers. Our large scale also helps us better serve our customers by backing up data in multiple places and letting businesses easily increase their storage and speed.

No Unnecessary Waste Since 2007, we’ve recycled enough servers to avoid buying over 90,000 replacement machines. Www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/CASPrimaryComputing.pdf. Www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/internet.swf. How the internet works. How the Internet works. [VIDEO].flv. How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes. How does the internet work? - James May's Q&A (Ep 19) - Head Squeeze.