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WHAT IS THE INTERNET

The internet is a global networking system providing a number of information communication facilites to millions of devices worldwide. The internet consists of interconnected networks using communication protocols.

LAN = Local Area Network is a computer network that spans a relatively small area. Most often, a LAN is confined to a single room, building or group of buildings, however, one LAN can be connected to other LANs over any distance via telephone lines and radio waves.

WAN = Wide Area Nework is a telecommunications network that is used for connecting computers, which spans a wide geographical area, such as between different cities, states or even countries

WWW = The World Wide Web is a network of online content that is formatted in HTML and accessed via HTTP. The term refers to all the interlinked HTML pages that can be accessed over the Internet. The world wide web contains websites and wepages.The World Wide Web is in front of evry URL/ link. It conncets you to the world wide web so that you can send emails and view webpages. For example www.example.com, the WWW is used in every url of webpages.

Packages = Packages are information from the internet that travels from one computer to another. Packages travel from one route to geto to your computer but it will they can take a differnet route a times because of trafic congestion. Since the package can't fit all at once they are broken down into hundred if not thousands of pieces, they can take differnet routes by their address, and might get to the destination at different times but once all the pieces are their you can reassemble them.