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Internet

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Internet

a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
A network made of smaller network that connect one another.

Protocol
- A set of rules used to transmitting data.
- HTTP
  - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The protocol used by the World Wide Web. It describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to commands.
- TCP
  - Transmission Call Protocol. Breaks larger messages into multiple packets and ensures all packets are received and ordered correctly.
  - IP address
    - Internet Protocol. A address in which a computer can go to.
  - DNS
    - Domain Name System. The Internet's system for converting alphabetic names to numeric IP adresses 
- packets
  - Pieces or bits of information that are from larger messages.
- router
  - A computer which receives messages and redirects them towards their intended destinations based on the addressing information included with the message.
Bit
- Binary Digit. The single unit of information in a computer. Represented as 0 or 1.
- bit rate
  - The number of bits that are processed in a unit of time.
  - bandwidth
    - Transmission capacity measure by bit-rate. 
- Latency
  - Time it takes for a bit to travel to sender to receiver.
- Ascii
  - American standard Code for Information Interchange. An 7-bit coding scheme.
- Binary
  - Information for which only two answers are possible. Two-state.
Abstraction
- Reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristic

Description: a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
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