Discussion on ch. 13,14, and 20

Internet (ch.13)

Definitions

• What is the internet?
• What is the WWW?
• How are they different?

History

• How did the internet begin?
• What was ARPANET?
• What are domain names?
• What is a top level domain?

Impact--How has the internet affected you-

• socially
• economically
• legally

what is ecommerce?

• what issues does it raise?
locality privacy
• how do you use ecommerce?
• what are some ecommerce technologies?
  -dynamic websites (mis-defined in text)
  -price bots (unsuccessful attempt to use retailer price-adjustment tactics)
  -coupons coupons coupons
  -deal sites
  
• b2b, b2c, c2c

browsing as shopping

• different demographics have different habits- what are some? (men, women, children)

what are some disadvantages to ecommerce?

Broadband

what are petabits?

US lags behind

what's better, cable or DSL?

Who's the king of the new network-Comcast or Time Warner?

How is competition a good thing?

Nuts and Bolts (not in the reading)

Browser HTML CSS Links Multimedia