The Internet

The internet is used constantly by most of the planet and could be described accurately by very few of them, which matters because the vocabulary carries real consequences for privacy and security. This category covers what the network actually is, how addresses and domain names work, the difference between the internet and the web, and the terms, bandwidth, server, protocol, that get used interchangeably but are not. It also covers open source and its role. The explanations describe the mechanism plainly and correct the most common conflations.