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How Does the Interenet Work?

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The Internet first started with the military, which wanted to have a communication network that would survive a nuclear attack. So they developed the idea of the Internet, which then (in 1969) was called ARPANET.

How does the Internet operate? Many people use it everyday but few know how the Internet works. The Internet first started with the military, which wanted to have a communication network that would survive a nuclear attack. So they developed the idea of the Internet, which then (in 1969) was called ARPANET. The Internet (or ARPANET) grew bigger and bigger and now results to the Internet that we have today. In this paper, the Internet will be separated into three main groups: how the Internet works, materials needed to go online, and the World Wide Web.

The Internet is basically a very large computer network that connects computers together so they will be able to share and send information and resources. Every computer connected to the Internet has the ability to exchange information with other computers. That.....

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