nicating, regardless of their operating system. TCP defines how certain packets of information are transferred across the Internet, and IP determined their final destination. Every computer connected to the Internet has an assigned IP address. The Internet Protocol (IP) is the identifying number that allows any computer to find any other computer over the Internet. The IP address is a set of four one, two, or three digit numbers separated by periods. For example, the IP address of a web page may be 219.154.79.201; this number is translated into the word based address “www.yourwebpagename.com,” by a Domain Name System (DNS) Server, and vice-versa. If you were to type 219.154.79.201 in the address bar of your browser, you should be brought back to yourwebpagename.com. In the lower-case word format of an internet address the suffix at the end of the path signifies the organization that owns that particular commuter network for example educational institutions have the abbreviation .edu, the military uses .mil, government offices use .gov, and non-profit organizations use .org. Networks based out side of the Britain use suffixes that indicate that particular country, for example .com for the U.S.A, .ca for Canada, .au for Australia and .de for Germany. Once a packet of information has been addressed it leaves the home network thorough a gateway. It is routed from gateway to gateway until it reaches it reaches the network containing the destination machine. There is no single computer, which directs the flow of information on an Internet, this makes differentiates an Internet form another online service, such as the Microsoft Network, CompuServe, AOL, or Sprint Canada. TCP/IP forms the foundation for the entire Internet community. However, when it was created, it only allowed data to be exchanged between a few supercomputers that existed in the 1960s. The next advancement towards today’s Internet was Ethernet.EarthnetEthe...
