Clive GiffordA Question of Technology: Can You Break the Internet?
And other questions about the internet
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
1: What's the Internet?
2: Are the World Wide Web and the Internet the same thing?
3: What was the first thing sent over the Internet?
4: Can the wind blow WiFi away?
5: Is the Web really full of spiders?
6: Is there one big Internet superhighway?
7: Why does the Internet need walls?
8: Why is TimBL an HTML Hero?
9: Do I need wellies to go streaming?
10: Can you break the Internet?
11: What's the Internet of Things?
12: What's the digital divide?
13: Quick-fire questions
14: Glossary / Further reading
15: Index
