As
far as you are concerned, Internet is what you connect to using an ISP
(Internet Service Provider). In that sense, Internet is you and the ISP.
Example for Internet service providers are AOL, VSNL,
Satyam, HCL, Reliance etc... In the same sense, your Internet can be called as
the web page you view, e-mail you receive or the files you download.
The Global Internet:
What we would discuss here is beyond you and the ISP.
If we use an analogy, you and the ISP comprise just a small river on earth.
While the actual Internet is whole of the oceans put together.
Internet is a network. Network is an Interconnection of
PCs, Servers, network equipment like routers, switches etc…
Why network is built?
It is built so that;
Now the networks you have seen may be one at home
comprising few PCs, a printer, an Internet gateway etc…, in your office you
might have seen larger networks where there are many PCs, Printers, Servers,
etc…
Next : Let us come
to the point
