How the Internet Works Course (How To)

Knowing how the technology you use everyday works will make you a more thoughtful and powerful user of technology.

In this course we'll explore how the Internet works, by investigating hardware like routers, switches, and servers and the TCP/IP protocols that define how information moves from computer to computer.

What you'll learn

• Clients and Servers
• TCP/IP
• Routers and Switches
• Connecting to the Internet

The Internet

What is the Internet? How does it do what it do? And how in the world is it possible to get web pages from around the world in a matter of seconds?

• The History of the Internet

  2:21

• Check your facts, your history facts that is!

  4 questions

• The Big Picture

  2:59

• The Big Picture

  3 questions

• Clients and Servers

  2:04

• Client and Servers

  4 questions

• TCP/IP

  3:04

• TCP/IP Protocol Suite

  5 questions

• Routers and Switches

  2:32

• Routers and Switches

  5 questions

• Connecting to the Internet

  2:57

• Your Big Picture Review

  1 question