Inside The Internet

Inside the Internet

Inside the Internet

What is inside the Internet?What is under the bonnet in the hidden world of the World Wide Web?How does a message, sent from my PC or mobile phone, return to its origin after trans-versing the international connections of the Internet?Is it safe?How can the Internet let bad things happen?Inside the Internet describes how your home computer, mobile phone or office network connects to the Internet to form a unique path across telephone exchanges, undersea communication cables and satellite links that make up the Internet in an easy to understand non-computer-nerdy way.When surfing the Internet, you appear to have the whole of the Internet dedicated to you, an experience shared with millions of other Internet users worldwide - we explain how this conundrum occurs. Along the way, we look at the history of communication at a distance from the days of the telegraph and the telephone to how anything and everything can be connected to the Internet of today. Armed with a better understanding and a focussed view of the Internet, we can reap the benefits of the utopia of Internet applications while avoiding the perils and pitfalls that the Internet inherently presents and provide answers to the questions above and advice for a safer journey across the Internet.

Inside the Internet

Inside the Internet delves into the technologies that go to make up the Internet. The sheer scale of the Internet and its wide scale use from a simple home computer to a multinational company running thousands of computers connected to the Internet, could only be marvelled at 20 years ago. With today's technologies enabling you to download music and talk in real time to your friends anywhere in the world, this important technology is here to stay! Of all the things that the Internet offers probably your first encounter with the net will be made via the world wide web (WWW). Explains with diagrams how the web works. Learn about key Internet technologies. Includes chapters which explain the mystery of these technologies: - Routers, Backbone, Routers, IP Addresses, Backbone, Email, Usenet, Bluetooth, WiFi, World Wide Web, PDA, MP3, Mobile phone connection, FTP, Servers and Clients, Domain Name System, Internet Telephony, Modems, Satellite Connection, Telnet, FTP, Compression