CS100 Lecture Notes - Wysiwyg, Textedit, Peachpit
3 Apr 2013
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Our daily use of the internet is almost an automatic process. This leads to us taking the internet for granted, so we forget or ignore what is needed to make possible our experience of the internet. In order to make our use of the internet more efficient, we need to learn about or reacquaint ourselves with its implementation details. When you send information from one computer to another, you implicitly make use of many hardware components and pieces of systems software. Much like an operating system provides services for using a computer on its own, communications systems provide services for using collections of computers together. As explained in section 1. 3, a network consists of two or more computers that are connected by physical cables or satellite and radio communication. A network can be configured as a chain of computers (computer.
