The document discusses how the internet works at a high level. It explains that the internet is a network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data via packets. Packets are broken into smaller units at the sender, routed from node to node via routers, and reassembled at the receiver. It also describes how domain names map to IP addresses to make the network accessible, and how the world wide web uses HTML documents, HTTP, and browsers to share hyperlinked information over the internet.