How the internet works

You need to utilize a web browser and type the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the website you wish to visit in order to access the Internet.

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After that, an IP address must be generated from the human-readable URL you entered. The Domain Name Server (DNS) translates this text. The DNS server is consulted each time you input an address to access the Internet in order to convert it to the proper IP address. You can access the relevant website using the IP address that DNS provides.

Because words are easier to recall than many of these numbers, domain names were created for IP addresses.

No one owns the Internet.
It is governed by protocols. Certain of them are

• HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTML file transfer)
• TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (Controlling IP address transfer)
• FTP – File Transfer Protocol (File transfer)
• SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (Email exchange)
• ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol (notice of messages and message control in case of mistakes)

Wide area networks (WANs) like the Internet exist. It is created using a client-server architecture (Client Server Model). Clients or servers are the two types of computers that are Internet-connected. The client computers receive the required resources from the server computers.

• Download – Retrieving information from server computers to client computers.
• Upload – Transferring information from client computers to server computers.

Many computers acting as Internet servers

• Web Server – Storing web pages and delivering them to client computers.
• Mail Server – Storing and delivering e-mail to client computers.
• DNS Server – Conversion of URLs to IP addresses.

Functions of the Internet

• World Wide Web – WWW
• Electronic Mail – Email
• File Transfer Protocol
• Remote Access
• File Sharing
• Streaming of media
• Search Engines

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