All About The Internet!

1st things first,you'll need to know what the internet actually is. The internet is the physichal conection all the information on computers all around the world! Mainly,these conections are cables.

This picture shows the

cross section of a cable.

There are lots of

types of cables.The one

shown here is a overland cable. But this leaves one question. How do different islands link?

The answer is,undersea cables:

These are,of course, cables

that go underwater. They are

specially designed cables that

can work under the sea.This

means that the internet could

travel across Europe and then to America without some one having to take the cable on a boat so as not to get it wet.

Now you know what the internet is you might be wondering what the world wide web is. The answer is simple-it's the web pages and information that travels through the internet. To acsess the internet, you'll have to go onto a web browser first,such as google or firefox.

All you have to do is type the website you want into the web browser and it will appear on your screen. Servers will send the packets of your chosen website to your computer. Sometimes a web page won't work. You'll know because "This site cannot be reached" will come onto your page. This will probably be because one of the routers isn't working.

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