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A 3 page overview of the Internet and the various components that make it one of the most powerful tools of contemporary society. The author of this paper emphasizes the point that the Internet is a network of networks. It is not owned and operated by one entity but rather by tens of millions of entities. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the most powerful tools of contemporary society. Its power lies not only in its capabilities but in its structure. The Internet is not owned or operated by any one
entity but rather by tens of millions of of entities, entities that are located all over the world. As the name would suggest, the Internet is a conglomerate of
interconnected networks (Tyson, 2006). The World Wide Web is a distinctive component of
the Internet. It works through what is referred to as the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP is a protocol as opposed to a language such is the case
with the more familiar Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that is used in the construction of web pages (Shuler, 2002). HTTP is utilized by web browsers and web servers in
communication with one another over the Internet, however (Shuler, 2002). Shuler (2002) clarifies that HTTP is:
"an application level protocol because it sits on top of the TCP layer in the protocol stack and is used by specific applications to talk to one another"
HTTP requests are sent by the user over the Internet, that request is serviced by
a server, and then the connection between the user and the server is terminated unless the computers themselves keep the connection over (Shuler, 2002). HTTP does not attempt to
maintain a connection once the request has been serviced (Shuler, 2002). A new connection is required for each new HTTP request (Shuler, 2002).
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