Introduction to the Internet

[andrewducker]

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.

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Hate to be a pedant (Actually, I love it - I'm a pedantry whore) but the IP address you use in your 'just the basic facts' section is not an Internet routable address. Its part of 3 reserved private ranges detailed in RFC 1918 which can be used by anyone who doesn't want to connect to the Internet or will use some kind of address translation to change the address into a public Internet routable address. Arguably, this makes it not such a good example of a 'basic fact' Internet address ;-P

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.

[andrewducker]

Good point. I used that address purely because it's the one my PC uses at home, which is indeed non-routable (as I use NAT to get data to/from it).