What makes up the internet besides computers? What is the "network"?

Answer 1

http://www.centerspan.org/tutorial/net.htm
There ya go
or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Answer 2

Interesting Question, I want to share my knowledge for this too.

Internet, is the global digital world that contains over millions of web sites. Each web sites are made up by person, or people, or "website designer". The web site owner must may for the website that they own monthly. But where is the memories for the website that can contains tons of music and pictures or video like Photobucket, iTunes, ect? The question is still hidden. But I can answer that there's a "King" Modem that's located at California. It is a hugest hard disc for all the websites. Besides, people have made some other modems too. Then from the King Modem, they go to a companies, which are Comcast, RCN, NetZero, ect.

Network, a group of two or more computer systems linked together. There are many types of computer networks, including:

Local-area networks (LANs) : The computers are geographically close together (that is, in the same building).

Wide-area networks (WANs) : The computers are farther apart and are connected by telephone lines or radio waves.

Campus-area networks (CANs): The computers are within a limited geographic area, such as a campus or military base.

Metropolitan-area networks MANs): A data network designed for a town or city.

Home-area networks (HANs): A network contained within a user's home that connects a person's digital devices.

I hope these are clear to you, Good Luck,

Answer 3

The Internet is a network of networks all running Internet Protocol (a.k.a. IP). Internet is a proper name by the way;)

It all started with a Dept of Defense project to connect several university campus's (such as MIT, Stanford) to some defense contractors in order to communicate faster. So you had the entire network at MIT connected to the entire network as Stanford University, connected to the entire network at Boeing and so on.

Eventually with all the universities connected and companies like Cisco building the equipment the whole thing just took off. When the university student from Sweden invented HTML and Mozilla) the Internet became very user friendly. However most people used what I call the Internet training wheels - America On Line until very recently. Now companies like Yahoo, Google have taken a lot of the geekyness out of the Internet so everyone can use it.

So you are one node on some service providers network. That service provider connects to other service providers networks, which also connects to major private networks (universities, businesses, governments etc..).

Answer 4

It depends on how you want to look at it. At home, you might have more than one computer accessing the internet at once, to do this, you need to have a router and a modem, or a modem and you need to share your internet connection. Most people use routers, and as far as sharing internet connections, I'm not going to get into that.

Someones home network is just like the internet across the world, just on a much, MUCH smaller scale.

When you want to connect to a website, let's say yahooanswers.com or such, you need to be connected to the internet, of course, to do this. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) allowes you to access all of the different servers across the world. Each server has it's own unique address, called it's IP address, which allows the server to connect to the internet, per se.

Now, this is what happens:

1. You turn your computer on
2. You type in the address of the website (server) you want to access.
3. The computer sends requests to the server through many different routers and different ways to get to the server; however, the way every server is connected to the internet is by every ISP being connected to eachother, allowing you to access them all.
4. The server grants access, and wahlah, you have access to the server.

I'm not entirely sure how correct all of that is, but it's the basic idea.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

That would depend on how you define computers.

The internet is made up of things like your own PCs, Servers, Routers, hubs, switches, and other electronics like those needed to send and recieve fiber optic signals.

The only non electronic part of the internet would be the large amounts of cable (mostly fiber optic) that connects the servers and such.

Answer 6

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