Making Software: How the internet works.
everything involved in sending a message from your computer to another computer on the other side of the world. ╌╌╌╌ It's easy to think of the internet as this big amorphous blob of computers connected together, but when you take a look at how information is transferred at the lowest level, there is an insane amount of infrastructure required to make it happen. Not just the physical cables and relays, but all the ingenious protocols6 that make sure your data gets to the right place and in the right order. The internet literally couldn't work without a bunch of people making smart decisions decades ago. ╌╌╌╌ If you haven't read the chapter on sending and receiving data↗ you might want to give it a once over because we're going to pick up where we left off there and dig into the protocols and systems that transmit that data around the world. In the previous chapter↗ we learned about how the Ethernet and WiFi protocols send data around a network. The process of converting packets5 of data
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