[upbeat music]
[school bell ringing]
- Hello everyone, welcome to Computer Club!
- [Students] Hello, Ms. Webster!
- Let me start with a question.
What is the internet?
- I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
- The internet is a network of computers
that connects the whole world
so people can easily share information with each other.
- Makes sense to me.
Are we gonna play video games now?
- [chuckling] Not yet.
First, we're going to use the internet to send an email.
Turn on your computers everyone.
An email is like a letter
that is sent through the internet.
Does anyone have a message to send?
- I'd love to wish my Uncle Lighthouse happy birthday.
He lives in Boot Island.
That's a different country.
- Perfect.
Every email has an email address,
that's where it gets sent to.
Do you know your uncle's email address?
- Believe it or not, I do.
[text clicking]
- Great.
What's your message?
- Dear Uncle Lighthouse, happy birthday!
Love, Watt.
- Can we add some hearts?
I love emojis.
- Ooo, of course. [emojis clicking]
Now let's send it and see where it goes.
- [Students] Ooo!
- Welcome to the internet!
- I feel right at home here.
- Me too.
We're going on a tour of the internet
by following your email and seeing how it gets
to where it's going.
- Hello there everyone, I'm your message.
Hop in, we're going for a ride.
- Every delivery starts here at a router.
- Hi, I am Rudy.
I'm the City Island router.
It's my job to find the best possible path
for your message to travel on.
- Like when my grandpa tells my dad
his shortcuts to the airport.
- Ah, pretty close.
You're gonna Watt's Uncle Lighthouse on Boot Island.
I know just the right path.
- To deliver the message,
we're traveling on an internet cable at the speed of light.
- I'm always traveling at the speed of light.
- It takes days or even weeks to send a letter in the mail,
a message sent through the internet takes a split second.
- They should call you speedster.
- I'm cool with that.
- Our path is connected by lots of routers
that guide us on our way to the email address.
This is one of the most important things about the internet.
- Then I will remember it forever.
- Oh, welcome.
I'm Rosa, the Boot Island router.
Do you have a message for me to deliver?
- You know it, Rosa, read this!
[Rosa beeping]
- Looks good.
I'll get this message to Uncle Lighthouse right away.
- [Students] Yay! - Yeah!
[email beeping]
- Wow, I just got a birthday email from my nephew Watt
all the way from City Island!
- Watt must be very smart to know how to use the internet.
- He's always plugged in.
- Okay, everyone.
Can you tell me something you learned
about the internet today?
- The internet is a way for people to send messages
to each other all over the world.
- And it happens really quickly
because routers find the best path.
- And that's the genius of internet.
- Excellent! You've got it!
- Can we play video games now?
- The message is, yes.
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02x15 - Internet
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Watt takes part in all sorts of activities in his community, and meets interesting people along the way.
Watt takes part in all sorts of activities in his community, and meets interesting people along the way.