The document provides an overview of key concepts related to how the internet works. It defines an internet service provider as an organization that provides access to the internet by connecting users to servers through network access points. It also explains that devices on the internet are assigned IP addresses to enable communication and that data is sent in packets from clients through ISPs, routers, and servers, where the packets are reassembled at their destination. Servers contain shared resources and routers forward data packets between networks by reading the packets' address information.

1. The Internet
Interconnected Network

2. ISP
Internet Service Provider
An organization that provides
services for accessing, using, or
participating in the Internet.
All ISPs are connected to each other
through (NAPS) Network Access
Points.
.

3. IP Address
Internet Protocol address.
Set of numbers assigned to each
device enabling communication
devices in a network.

4. Server/Clients
A server is a network computer that
contains resources that are shared with
other computers within the network
A Client is the computer that receives
information and resources from the server.

5. Packet
The broken down data that is sent from your
computer (Client)
through your cable line at home, then through the
fiber optic cables set up by (ISP)
that goes to (A Server) and using (IP Address)
and (routers) reassembled at the destination you
chose.

6. Routers
Forwards data packets between
computer networks.
reads the address information in the
packet to determine its ultimate
destination.

7. Internet Flow
Your Computer
Client
ISP
Time
Warner
IP Address
Router
Server
Information

8. How the Internet works in 5
minutes.
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