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Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works

Introduction - Networks and Packets

January 27, 2023 Charles R. Severance Season 1 Episode 1
Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works
Introduction - Networks and Packets
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Introduction to Networking: How the Internet Works
Introduction - Networks and Packets
Jan 27, 2023 Season 1 Episode 1
Charles R. Severance

This is part of the book "Introduction to Networking" at www.net-intro.com

Using the Internet seems pretty easy. We go to a web address and up comes a page. Or we go to our favorite social site and see pictures of our friends, families, and pets. But it takes a lot of complex software and hardware to make the Internet seem so simple. The design of the technologies that make today's Internet work started in the 1960s, and there were over 20 years of research into how to build internetworking technologies before the first "Internet" was built in the late 1980s by academics in a project called NSFNet. Since then, the research and development into improving network technologies has continued as networks have become far larger and faster and globally distributed with billions of computers.

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This is part of the book "Introduction to Networking" at www.net-intro.com

Using the Internet seems pretty easy. We go to a web address and up comes a page. Or we go to our favorite social site and see pictures of our friends, families, and pets. But it takes a lot of complex software and hardware to make the Internet seem so simple. The design of the technologies that make today's Internet work started in the 1960s, and there were over 20 years of research into how to build internetworking technologies before the first "Internet" was built in the late 1980s by academics in a project called NSFNet. Since then, the research and development into improving network technologies has continued as networks have become far larger and faster and globally distributed with billions of computers.