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Internet - Coggle Diagram
Internet
Networking
Imagine networking as a game, it only works if we agree to play by the same rules. Otherwise it's not much fun.
If you can get two or more computers to play together you have a network. If your friend can do it too, there's another network.
If you have a friend and you want the same network, you can hook the two together. Then you'll have internet
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Rules
The internet roles are called internet protocol and as long as we all agree we can keep adding more devices and more networks, until the hole world is connected
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Every thing you send in the internet is really just a message from one divece to another, but it doesn't travel in one big block
It gets pulverized into packets of data. Each one wrapped with info about what it is, where it came and where is going.
Then when it gets to the other device, it receives the protocol and puts it all together
The strength of the internet is decentralized with so many possible connections, there is no single point of failure
If one path gets overloaded or broken, your data just takes a different path
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Providers
Providers are able to make a single connection to the platform to exchange traffic with many participants.
This way of doing things is called peering. And its making the internet faster and more affordable for everybody
Mutual benefit
The exchange participant make deals with each other according to mutual benefit, so the peering system trends to regulate its self
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It may seem like companies are giving away their services, but in fact each is providing they're part of the whole solution their costumers need to most efficiently and reliable exchange traffic.
The internet is open, decentralized and totally neutral. Its intelligence lives at the edge not in the core. no single organization controls it and that's why it works as well as it does