From the course: Computer Science Principles: The Internet
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- The internet was created to grow and evolve over time. The framework and protocol that built the internet, TCP and IP, have evolved and grown to support billions of devices and enable them to connect with each other. Through the use of packets, information can be sent through a fault-tolerant network, and then be verified for reliability of information to ensure that information is sent quickly and accurately. Through the internet protocol, every device on the internet has a unique code, or IP address that is used to route packets of information. Using IP before, and now IPV6, there are enough addresses to assign to an almost infinite number of devices as the internet grows and expands. But to make that easier for use to remember and work with, we use words and phrases, called domains, that are translated to these IP addresses using DNS, or Domain Name Servers. When we access a server over the web using a browser, we are sending information using HTTP. The web server has a program…
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