Labels:chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | plant | sky | stairs | tree OCR: THE INTERNET Ho sts Do ma and Sites How does the Internet know where send data? The Internet in cludes computers that perform diffe rent functions Some computers on the Internet handle communications and route e-mail, but most publicity about the Internet focuses on computers that provide information such as stock quotes movie reviews, pue sports scores Regardless of function, every computer connected to the Internet is referred to as host. Each host has unique identifying g number called an IP address An IP addressis set of four numbers between0 and 255 that are separated by periods. FOr example 204. 46. 44 .253 is the IP address the Coca Cola Company When data travels over the Internet carries the address of it s destination. A each intersection on the backbone the data's IF address exam ...
