Homework

Find a willing nongeek and practice explaining the following concepts in terms that person can understand. You might owe a coffee for your nongeek’s time and patience.

• Explain why simply adding an S after HTTP makes a site suddenly trustworthy.

• Explain the concept of a network packet and all its addresses, data, and why we use CRC and a preamble.

• Explain the terms multithreading, multicore, multiprocessor, multimode (fiber optic), and multiuser.

• Explain why so many people have 192.168.x.x IP addresses yet duplicate IP conflicts aren’t really an issue on the Internet.

• Explain where the Internet is physically located.

• If you want a challenge, explain subnetting. It might require a second coffee.