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What is the Internet?

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The Internet is a network of networks, that makes us ask ourselves what is the Network.

What is the Network?

Network is a group or system of interconnected people or items.

Everything connected together created a network, like the routes, and the railway trains.

But the computer network is a group of interconnected computers via wired or wireless.

Note: the internet by lowercase of 'i' refers to any interconnect network, but the Internet by the capital 'I' refer to the global Internet 😎

Computer Network types?

  • LAN Local Area Network
  • WAN Wide Area Network
  • WLAN Wireless LAN
  • WWAN Wireless WAN

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. [Wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network)

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