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OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS The Internet allows people to share resources as well as interact. Individuals computers can be linked together in ed networks with powerful processing capabilities. One of the most ambitious grid computing efforts, SETI@home uses the Internet to connect personal computers of more than 3 million volunteers from al over the world to analyze deep space radio sig- nals in the search for extraterrestrial life computer network is a group of computers linked by wired or wireless technology to share data and I resources. Network technology existed before the Internet became popular, but the first computer networks were mainly deployed in schools and businesses They were complicated to set up unreliable and offered only local connectivity Network technology eventually ...