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Everyone accepts that the Internet is going to become the
most important communications link that the world has ever known, it is already an
incredibly powerfull medium for the delivery of vital and hard to find information. It
allows communication between individuals or business on a one to one basis or on a one to
many (multicast) basis. Despite this, very few people actually understand what it is!
Quite simply, the Internet is an international network that allows individual computers to
link together and share information and resources. This means that any computer can have
access to information stored on any other computer, any where in the world, providing that
they have rights to access that information. It also means that any computer can pass
messages to any other computer (EMail). Recently, a part of the internet known as the
World Wide Web has
received a lot of media attention, and with good reason. The World Wide Web, or "The
Web" as it has become known, allows companies or individuals to publish information
in a visually appealing, graphical way. This document is a Web Document.
So how does it work and what happens when I connect to the Internet? |
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