What is the Internet?
The Internet is formed by billions of connected computing devices, communication links and packet switches:
- It is the network of networks: interconnected ISPs (Internet Service Providers)
- Protocols define format and control sending, receiving of messages
- E.g. TCP, IP, HTTP, Skype, 802.11
- Standards
- RFC (Request for comments), IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
- Provides services to applications (Web, VoIP, email, social nets, …)
- Provides programming interface to apps
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This resource was developed as part of an Erasmus+ project, funded with support from the European Commission under grant agreement 2016-1-SE01-KA203-22064.
The project was a collaboration between:
- The University of Borås, Sweden
- The University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
- The University of Alcalá, Spain
- Digital Connections, Scotland
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