Showing posts with label "WHAT IS " THINGS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "WHAT IS " THINGS. Show all posts
Dec 5, 2010
WHAT IS THE INTERNET?
or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”
WHAT IS AN INTERNET, EXACTLY PEOPLE LIKE YOU OR ME? FOR SOME OF US IT IS A PLACE TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH FRIENDS, GET THE NEWS , SHOP & PLAY GAMES. FOR SOME OTHER IT IS THEIR LOCAL BROADBAND PROVIDER OR THE FIBER OPTIC CABLE THAT PROVIDE DATA BACK AND FORTH ACROSS CITIES AND COUNTRIES.
WHO IS RIGHT BETWEEN US ? NO ONE KNOWS.
A HELPFUL PLACE TO START IS NEAR THE BEGINNING IN 1974. THAT WAS THE YEAR WHEN A FEW SMART COMPUTER RESEARCHERS INVENTED SOMETHING CALLED INTERNET PROTOCOL SUITE OR TCP/IP FOR SHORT. TCP/IP CREATED A SET OF RULES THAT ALLOWED COMPUTER TO "CONNECT" TO EACH OTHER AND SEND DATA BACK AND FORTH.
TCP/IP is somewhat like human communication: when we speak to each other, the rules of grammar provide structure to language and ensures that we can understand each other and exchange ideas. Similarly, TCP/IP provides the rules of communication that ensure interconnected devices understand each other so that they can send information back and forth. As that group of interconnected devices grew from one room to many rooms — and then to many buildings, and then to many cities and countries — the Internet was born.
The early creators of the Internet discovered that data and information could be sent more efficiently when broken into smaller chunks, sent separately, and reassembled. Those chunks are called packets. So when you send an email across the Internet, your full email message is broken down into packets, sent to your recipient, and reassembled. The same thing happens when you watch a video on a website like YouTube: the video files are segmented into data packets that can be sent from multiple YouTube servers around the world and reassembled to form the video that you watch through your browser.
A HELPFUL PLACE TO START IS NEAR THE BEGINNING IN 1974. THAT WAS THE YEAR WHEN A FEW SMART COMPUTER RESEARCHERS INVENTED SOMETHING CALLED INTERNET PROTOCOL SUITE OR TCP/IP FOR SHORT. TCP/IP CREATED A SET OF RULES THAT ALLOWED COMPUTER TO "CONNECT" TO EACH OTHER AND SEND DATA BACK AND FORTH.
TCP/IP is somewhat like human communication: when we speak to each other, the rules of grammar provide structure to language and ensures that we can understand each other and exchange ideas. Similarly, TCP/IP provides the rules of communication that ensure interconnected devices understand each other so that they can send information back and forth. As that group of interconnected devices grew from one room to many rooms — and then to many buildings, and then to many cities and countries — the Internet was born.
The early creators of the Internet discovered that data and information could be sent more efficiently when broken into smaller chunks, sent separately, and reassembled. Those chunks are called packets. So when you send an email across the Internet, your full email message is broken down into packets, sent to your recipient, and reassembled. The same thing happens when you watch a video on a website like YouTube: the video files are segmented into data packets that can be sent from multiple YouTube servers around the world and reassembled to form the video that you watch through your browser.
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