How The Internet Works

My goal, in this paper, is to give the reader a better general understanding of how the Internet works. The Internet itself is a vast, sometimes cold place. However, with a small understanding and an open mind for new ideas, it can become a wonderful place to have fun and give you a better understanding of the world.

In order to understand how something works, it helps to have a broad knowledge of how, when, and where it came about. The concept of computers came a long time before most people think that it did. It all had started with the lust to be first in technology. There are many points one could start at to explain the exact dates and years the Internet started. To save time, and also due to the fact that this report is about how the Internet works, not how it was created only high points will be discussed. In 1968, ARPANET (ARPANET was made to help personal of the military get important information from one point to another quickly) was created, only four minicomputers were part of this system. The term "Internet" was coined in 1974. In the year of 1983, the Domain Name System was created. This meant that long numbers were no longer needed to acce

ss servers. It is unclear, of the exact date, when the World Wide Web was created. Although it is pretty safe to say, it was released to the world 1991.

Well now, that about covers the essentials. So basically this paper was about how the Internet distinguishes your computer from the rest.

The Internet has what sometimes seems like infinite amounts of information and sites. Thru these sites you can receive and view many things. For example you can listen to you favorite band through Internet radio or download some of their music. You can view pictures, read documents, and watch movies or video. First you must reach a site to obtain all of these wonderful things. In order to do this, with not much difficulty, you use a browser and a Uniform Recourse Locator, more commonly known as URL. A URL can look like this: http://www.howtheinternetworks.com/spy.htm