What is Internet?
Internet is a tool that humans created to communicate with each other despite their distance. Unlike other communication tools like phones, the Internet can support real-time exchanges of graphics and sounds. One important contribution of the Internet is it provides fast transmission of a large amount of information. In ancient times, people need to transmit large packages of data, such as letters, manually. This is tedious and limited in nature since humans cannot travel to multiple destinations at once and the trips could be dangerous. Internet relies on wires all over the world and information is transmitted through light in the wires, so the transmission speed is fast.
With the Internet, people can exchange large amounts of information, whether it is sound or graphics, in real-time and without considering their distance in between. And Internet supports different kinds of devices. Computers, phones, printers are all devices that can access the Internet.
In our pioneer plaque, we communicate with the idea that internet works to connect something that’s separated, either in time or space. We use the separated sphere of the globe to tell that people were physically isolated–before the internet (yellow lines) connects them. The sun and moon stands for the gap of time, which internet is also managed to get across. Finally, we draw the shapes of telephone and PC to show that they’re the places where internet takes place; messages like words and sound are transferring through the wifi.
