In response to green_amber's
request for an introduction to how the internet works, so she can hand it to non-technical people who deal with the internet, I've written
this on my Wiki.
I'd really appreciate people taking a look and leaving comments here.
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Did you perhaps mean to link to this one?
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It's just a bunch of computers.
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Make your mind up!
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That's what ya do with titles.
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I drank too much caffeine back then
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Sentence not make sense!
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Otherwise its an excellent document. I'd have gotten completely carried away and written a small book with way too much detail and explanation and it would have ceased to be concise and simple... I think you have a good balance there.
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"Server farm" can be replaced by "huge rooms full of computers" tho - good point.
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To use your car analogy, a lawyer can be an expert on the laws surrounding car use without knowing where spark plugs fit in the scheme of things.
The document goes from simple, high-level analogies (restaurant, university) straight to concrete, low-level technical details (TCP/IP, IP addresses, HTTP). I think there's a step or two missing in there.
For example, it might be worthwhile explaining what a network is, describing the client-server paradigm, how the Internet is essentially a network of networks (hence the name), and so on, before attempting to explain the details of the technology that makes it all happen. I think the technical details are possibly irrelevant: the choice of technology is arbitrary, an historical accident of passing interest (and probably obsolete in five years anyway). What the Internet is and does is much more important and useful to know than how it currently does it. I see you've actually addressed most of this later in the document, but I feel it needs to come before (or instead of) any technical details.
Good luck with it. I'm interested to see what other people think.
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That suggests to me the number will always be the same for any given computer, which I believe isn't the case. Would Every computer while connected to the internet has a unique number. be more accurate?
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