What is the internet?

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Across
  1. 2. Facts provided or trends learned about something or someone, often as a result of studying data.
  2. 3. In computer science, a device that handles the exchange of digital information between different points in a network.
  3. 5. An adjective that describes the ability of certain devices to send and receive radio signals over the air. It often refers to Wi-Fi networks and the networks operated by cell-phone companies to transmit data called up by phone users.
  4. 8. A network of computers (hardware), known as servers, which are connected to the internet. They can be used to store data and computer programs (software) that can be accessed by one or many people at once, and from anywhere in the world.
  5. 10. An adjective indicating that something has been developed numerically on a computer or on some other electronic device, based on a binary system (where all numbers are displayed using a series of only zeros and ones).
  6. 14. Short for application, or a computer program designed for a specific task.
  7. 17. The underlying structure of a system. The term usually refers to the basic physical structures and facilities on which a society depends. These include roads, bridges, sewers, drinking water supplies, electrical power grids and phone systems.
  8. 18. The huge land masses that sit upon tectonic plates. In modern times, there are six established geologic continents: North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. In 2017, scientists also made the case for yet another: Zealandia.
  9. 22. A term for a computer — and especially the software on it — that provides services (hence, the name server) to other computers. A server computer program, for instance, stands ready to fulfill requests by its clients (which are other computer programs)
  10. 23. Being almost like something. An object or concept that is virtually real would be almost true or real — but not quite. The term often is used to refer to something that has been modeled by (or accomplished by) a computer using numbers, not by using real-world parts. (in computing) Things that are performed in or through digital processing and/or the internet.
  11. 24. Something with a thin, thread-like shape.
Down
  1. 1. Something whose shape resembles a thread or filament.
  2. 4. A system that can convert data or information into code that other people can’t easily decipher.
  3. 6. A straight line from the center to the circumference of a circle or sphere.
  4. 7. A moon orbiting a planet or a vehicle or other manufactured object that orbits some celestial body in space.
  5. 9. Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones.
  6. 11. A disturbance or variation that travels through space and matter in a regular, oscillating fashion.
  7. 12. The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a galaxy, star, planet or moon. One complete circuit around a celestial body.
  8. 13. An electronic device that connects your computer to the Internet. Modems also can translate digital data into analog mode, so that they can be sent across telephone lines.
  9. 15. A group of interconnected people or things. (v.) The act of connecting with other people who work in a given area or do similar thing (such as artists, business leaders or medical-support groups), often by going to gatherings where such people would be expected, and then chatting them up. (n. networking)
  10. 16. A flow of charge, usually from the movement of negatively charged particles, called electrons.
  11. 19. A network of parts that together work to achieve some function.
  12. 20. A technology that relies on a large number of base stations to relay signals. Each base station covers only a small area, which is known as a cell. Phones that rely on this system are typically referred to as cell phones.
  13. 21. An electronic communications network. It allows computers anywhere in the world to link into other networks to find information, download files and share data (including pictures).