How does the Internet work?
In today's world, it's almost impossible to imagine life without the internet's constant presence. Whether it’s for work, education, or personal use, the internet has become the go-to tool for everyone everywhere. But have we ever stopped and wondered, how the internet actually works? When I send a msg to my friend asking him when he’s going to pay me back for the lunch we had yesterday, he instantly receives the message if we’re connected to the internet (although he may choose to ignore it). The internet is a vast web of networks that allows signals or data to travel. Let’s use an analogy; think of a railway network and the trains are the messages/data that we send and each destination is a user. In the same way, all of us are connected to each other through the internet and all of us can communicate with each other via the “train track”. AND there are multiple ways to reach a destination and figuring out which way is efficient is the fundamentals of Computer Networks...