The Fundamentals

This reading was a huge help to me. Up to this point I’d heard and seen a lot of these terms used, but never really understood what they meant, or what this did. I found this reading surprisingly enjoyable.

The concept from this reading that I found the most interesting was that of the Internet Protocol (IP). I had no idea that you could type an IP address into a browser and have it work the same way as a domain name. Though, I’m very glad that we have domain names, because remembering all of those numbers would be a struggle.

I never knew that the Internet and the World Wide Web were not the same thing. Until now I’d been using the terms interchangeably. But, what I have now gathered is that the Internet is a network of computers, and the Web is how most users access the Internet, though you do not have to use the Web to use the Internet.