What is the Internet?
Learn what the internet is and understand how it powers the digital world.
Ever wondered how an email from your computer reaches someone on the other side of the world in just seconds? Or how a post you make on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter spreads around the globe within seconds? That's the power of the Internet.
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Picture one computer, now another—connect them, and now imagine billions of these connections worldwide.
In the following slides, we’ll walk step-by-step to understand how computers connect, form networks, and eventually build the vast system we know as the internet.
So, your personal computer is connected to other computers at your house or workplace to create a small computer network, which is in turn connected to other computer networks. And so, the global Internet encompasses a complex web of interconnected computer networks.
The internet is essentially a "network of computer networks."