This document provides an overview of computer networking concepts including:
- A brief history of networking from 60,000 years ago to the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989.
- Key facts about internet growth from 38 million broadband users in 1999 to over 2.7 billion people online today.
- An explanation of how networking standards like TCP/IP and the OSI model were developed to enable communication between different computer systems.
- A high-level overview of the seven layers of the OSI model and examples of technologies that operate at each layer.
- Descriptions of common networking concepts like DNS, NAT, VLANs, and wireless networking.