Where is the internet?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For Tai, the internet has always been there, and it's hard to imagine life without it. It seems almost like it's everywhere, all at once, like magical little clouds filled with information above us. But he learns there's a very real, physical system that allows him to send memes to friends or submit his homework. And more importantly, not everyone has equal access to it. In this episode Tai talks to: - Nicole Starosielski, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University - Janice Gates, Director of the Equitable Internet Initiative by the Detroit Community Technology Project. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0	This is a CBC Podcast.
0:04.0	Congratulations!
0:07.0	If you are listening to this podcast, chances are you have an internet connection.
0:13.0	Okay, okay.
0:14.0	I know it doesn't feel like a big achievement, and we can't even remember life before Wi-Fi.
0:19.0	But my parents told me when they were young, they had something called dial-up internet
0:24.0	where you'd have to use a phone line to get a connection.
0:28.0	Who even uses phone lines anymore?
0:30.0	What is that?
0:31.0	And it made this beepy, crunchy sound.
0:34.0	It was like...
0:37.0	Oh, and even when you did get on, you could really only see basic web pages
0:47.0	and it would take an hour to send an email.
0:50.0	My parents are from these stone ages from what I've gathered.
0:54.0	As you can tell, a lot has changed since then.
1:01.0	Now we have Wi-Fi.
1:03.0	We store things in the cloud, and I can send a picture to my family on the other side of the world in seconds.
1:09.0	It's just... bam!
1:11.0	Sent.
1:12.0	It's magic.
1:19.0	But I don't really understand how information travels from my phone
1:23.0	all the way to my cousin's phone in Australia.
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