The Internet

Part I of Essay
The term "Internet" is defined as a collection of local, regional, and national computer networks that are linked together to exchange data and distribute processing tasks. It is the world's largest computer network.* Their are various opinions about , some of us live by i ....

Part II of Essay
.... network dependent on the link before it. If one point in the network were blown up, the whole network would become useless. Paul Baran, one of the Rand thinkers on the project, conceived the idea for a new kind of communications network that wasn't organized point-to-point, but instead was set up more like a fishnet. He believed this structure could allow information to find its own path through the network even if a section had been destroyed. His eleven-volume report for the Pentagon was eventually shelved, but younger engineers realized th ....