So where do all informations on internet go to?

Question

we all up and download mass informations to and from internet day by day. So where do all those informations actually go to nad from ? what storehouse can hold such countless information all over the world each second??

Answer 1

Information on the Internet is stored all over the world. If you are on a network then you may be storing some of it on your machine.

The Internet was designed to keep military communications active even after a Nuclear War. So it has a lot of connections, and if a connection is lost it searches for a new connection automatically. Later colleges were added; the military wasn't using it that much. College students developed the first Internet applications. Killer applications like On-Line Gaming, Search Engines and E-mail. E-mail and Search Engine useage is the major usage of the Internet today. Currently the Internet extends anywhere you can get a phone connection. With cell phones, and satellite phones that is worldwide.

What is needed then is storage. Big companies (and some well off private individuals) have servers. A server is a big computer that can pass a lot of information quickly. Many companies use them to store company data and run their network. A whole lot of servers have public access. If you want information on AT&T then the Internet will take you to AT&T's web site, which is hosted (physically present) on their server. So any large company probably has its own servers to host its web site on. Smaller companies, and most individuals use an ISP (Internet Service Provider). The ISP uses its servers to host all these sites. Roughly 80% of the Internet sites you visit are hosted by ISPs. The information is physically stored on the servers at an ISP. ISPs are all over the world, and if you have enough money they make a good small business. Yahoo! started off as a small company providing free e-mail, with ads on their home page. They have since expanded their services many times. They now have servers for e-mail, Yahoo!Answers, the Yahoo! Search Engine and so on. Search Engine Servers store very little information they just have programs to locate information and they store those links. Every search engine will have different versions of the links list so it is good to search with two or more Search Engines.

Governments in developed countries have servers as well. They do that same thing that big companies do, only on a larger scale. Then there are on-line libraries which store lots of information.

Finally you too can be a server on the Internet, with a Music Search program. Napster started on a personal computer, they didn't have huge servers. When someone wanted to search for a song the Napster computer ran a search among all the other computers hooked up to it and then if it found the song it would post it to the person who asked for the song. The person then could chose among all the links and download the song. It would never be stored on Napster's computer only on the computers currently hooked up through the Napster program. If someone shuts down then their song library is lost, until they reconnect again, and start the Napster program. When you would connect to Napster there would be a new list of people also connected so the song library would change. As people "ripped" songs (recorded them to their computer) new songs (content) would be added. As people logged on and off then the library would change, but as more people traded songs then the library would grow larger and you would have a better chance to find the song you wanted. The Napster program was unique in using a "virtual" library. The song library was not located on one machine, but many, and as new people logged on or off the song library would change. This is how the Internet works. The servers are usually left on so people can always access the information though and they have a permanent connection to the Internet. Napster's connections varied with the people who logged on. Napster still works that way, but now they have to charge.

So the information is stored all over the world on very many servers. People who have data or e-mails that they want to post send it to a server. The e-mails are stored on the server until you delete them (or exceed your allotted capacity).

The major telephone companies like to run "data trunks" were vast amounts of data can be sent over the phone line. They use fiber optics, which can carry even more data quickly. They also have switching rooms; vast banks of computers that help you connect to the web site you want to. Think of the data trunks as freeways, your neighborhood has major trunks that act like highways, and the individual telephone lines are connected like streets. The switching computers are very large routers that send each packet of data onto the proper road to get to its destination. Each data packet is like a car. If you have a network then you also have a router, unless you are directly wired computer to computer, the router is a switcher, it makes sure each data packet goes to the computer that needs it. Just like a freeway a huge number of cars (Internet data packets) travel on these Internet connections, and just like rush hour traffic there can be traffic jams of information packets. It is a lot easier to put in a new data line than a new street so more data lines reduce the traffic flow. Also more switchers help.

Answer 2

Well, the internet is not an entity in itself. Rather, the internet, as you know it, is a communications protocal called TCP/IP. This protocal defines a way which allows one computer to talk to another computer.

Several companies today manage what are know as domain name servers. These domain name servers allow us to translate names into physical addresses.

So, when you type www.google.com into your browser (haha yahoo - yes google is still better...) here is what happens:

1) Your computer opens a connection with the domain name server for .com (which is managed by VeriSign right now, and which your computer already knows becuase your internet provider gave it to you automatically) and says get me the IP address for the "Google" domain name server. It returns this address. Connection is closed.

2) Your browser then opens a connection with this domain name server, and says get me the IP address of the server responsible for the "www" subdomain. It does. Connection is closed.

3) The computer then opens a connection with this server and says Get me your default page. It does this, using the http protocal. The connection is closed.

4) Your browser parses (incorrectly usualy if it's internet explorer) and then displays it for you.

There is no "Central computer" on the internet, rather, it is a network of many, many servers. The only thing close is google, which, again, is a network of many, many servers, and far more disk space than anyone really wants to know about.

Answer 3

Actually, the availability of cheap internet pseudoinformation has been killing the profession of journalism and thus the manufacture of strongly researched "good" information. Also, the proliferation of niche sites has created a dynamic where people get the information which justifies their preconceived notions whether white supremacism, black supremacism, Islamist extremism, Christian extremism... Moreover, those amoral persons who have the skills can hold the competing information hostage or destroy such information via technological terror attacks (viruses, "denial of service" attacks, hacking of banking and credit card information...) So, if anything, we are more likely to experience a recurrence of a sort of Dark Ages led by those who control the major sources of information.

Answer 4

As the word describes, Internet is a collection of computer linked to each other sharing information & data with each other, practically every location in the world has its own dedicated servers holding information and sharing it with other servers/users worldwide. if u r downloading some information through one of Yahoo servers in US, then there could be someone from India using server based in Hong Kong, each server has huge capacity to hold data, it could go into terbytes, but still the quantity of infomation is so large that one has to install multiple server across various location, and making sure they communicate with each other to give you accurate information in less given time. and surpisingly ite merely few seconds...

Answer 5

The information (it would be better to say data because not everything you see or read or download is information) is stored on disks (electronic storage). The "storehouse" is just electronic signals written on a disk medium. If this dat were printed out and stored on paper, it would of course be impossible to store it anywhere.

Answer 6

All the information comes and goes to Big Computers called as SERVERS-- as they SERVE the requests of information. Thats the simplest answer I can give.

Answer 7

The FBI, CIA, Washington, ATF, Secret Service, UN

Answer 8

Sorry I cant answer your question but I have to say that is the cutest picture.