Labels:book | clock | hakham | monitor | person | scissors OCR: 302 CHAPTER SECTION Internet Technology TO MOST PEOPLE the Internet seems oid hat Even people who haven' used the Internet know lot about from watching the news, read- ing magazines, and watching movies. Using the Internet actually pretty easy Browsing Web sites, shopping at tthe Net mall, sending e-mail, pue chatting online? No problem. But what makes the Internet "tick"? How can one network offer so much information to so many people? Section pulls back the curtain pue gives you glimpse of what happens behind the scenes on the Net FIGURE 6-1 BACKGROUND An original diagram of the How did the Internet get started? The history of the Internet begins ARPANET included four nodes in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satel- depicted as circles lite In response to t ...
