NetPl@net

Try your strength in a virtual Arm Wrestle against museum visitors in New York or Alaska. Create your own character and chat online in a 3D world, publish your own webpage with pictures from your visit, tour the globe with worldwide webcams, and so much more!

Journey Through the Internet

How do you connect to the Internet? How do webpages, photos, emails, and music get from here to there? Find out how packets of data travel over wires and waves from servers and through routers around the globe.

Traceroute

Choose a website to see on a map the actual path that data packets travel from a server to your computer.

Only on the Internet

There's some pretty wacky stuff on the Internet! Take a look at some of the inventive websites that people have created. From Marshmallow Peeps to virtual staplers to dancing hamsters—there's something for everyone online.

Webcam Globe

Touch different locations on a giant globe to see live webcam videos from around the world. Check the weather in Paris or Tokyo, view busy New York streets, check ski slopes in Utah, or watch surfers in Hawaii, all in real time!

Netspeak and Netiquette

How well do you know online lingo and etiquette--or netiquette? Test your knowledge of abbreviations like LOL. And see if you know what's acceptable behavior or poor manners on the Internet.

Whack-a-Spam

It's everywhere and it's annoying! Spam, or unwanted email, chokes networks and floods your in-box every day. Fight back in this game where you get to whack the "spam" with a mallet as you learn some ways to avoid spam.

Webpage Studio

Create a personalized webpage that contains photos and images from your visit to The Tech. Then use your unique TechTag number to visit your page anytime.

Real Stories

Over 750 million people around the world use the Internet. Twelve short videos feature people using the Internet in extraordinary ways.

Virtual World

Design your own character and interact with other visitors in this 3D online world. Fly around, ride a Jet Ski, build 3D objects, and solve puzzles together.

Internet Arm Wrestling

How can you arm wrestle someone who is miles away? Connect a mechanical arm to the Internet! At this exhibit, you can arm wrestle someone in New York or Alaska and feel their force as if they were seated across the table from you.

Crazy Connections

Make some music with instruments and sensors linked over the Internet. Then find out some real-world uses for this fun technology.

Interconnected City

We live in an increasingly connected world. Online access reaches more people and places as the Internet merges with cellular and wireless networks. Explore this animated cartoon world to find the Internet in some surprising places.