The Internet

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The Internet

Basic Internet

The internet is a system that allows you to play, listen, read,

send, receive and download files. The internet is so easy to use and

as I have broadband this encourages me to use the internet because I

can always rely on it being fast and good quality. Many people use the

internet as a means of keeping in touch; E-Mail is great because you

can write to people who may be over the other side of the world. You

don’t even have to leave the comfort of your own home to do this. One

of the greatest things about the internet is the search engines. You

type in what you are looking for it will come up with a list of

websites which will help you with what you want to find.

How the internet works

The internet is made up of networks (big and small). Networks

are a group of computers that are interconnected by telephone wires

(or other means) allowing the computers to share info with each other.

Every network has a backbones; backbones, better known as routers,

What is incredible about this process is that a message can leave one

computer and travel halfway across the world through several different

networks and arrive at another computer in a fraction of a second!

The routers determine where to send information from one computer to

another. Routers are specialized computers that send your messages and

those of every other Internet user speeding to their destinations

along thousands of pathways. A router has two separate, but rel...

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