How does the Internet work?

How does the Internet work?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: How does the Internet work?; What are some of the most common difficulties with using the Internet?; Who decides what goes on the Internet? and more...

It works because during the early days of the development of the Internet these mad genius scientists from M.I.T. and Stanford and Berkeley, and really all over the world, standardized different ways that packets of information could be sent and transmitted across the internet and then interpreted on the other side. By doing this they allowed for the individual computers, which might speak entirely different languages, nowadays you have computers on a Windows platform, a Linux platform, a Unix platform, a Mac platform, any kind of platform, but because the communication has all been standardized and simplified, they can all trade information based on these standard protocols.