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Since its earliest development in the 1970s through to today, networking has become increasingly integral in our daily lives. If you stop and imagine what life was like before you had streaming television, a smartphone, a laptop, a personal computer, or the Internet, you\u2019ll soon realize how much we rely on these technologies. While a career in networking requires much training and knowledge, a rudimentary understanding of networking can be achieved by understanding some basic terminology.<\/p>\n
This list is a high-level overview of the top networking terms you should know before pursuing a networking career or if you simply want to understand what your IT team is talking about when they talk about networking:<\/p>\n
The Internet<\/h4>\n
Few concepts in technology have eluded the understanding of so many people as much as \u201cThe Internet.\u201d For most of the population of the modern world, the Internet is an enigma. For those of us who work in networking, we understand that it is a complex amalgam of proprietary and open technology standards, signaling technologies and infrastructure. There is no one organization that owns the Internet. The physical infrastructure is owned and managed by a handful of large telecommunications companies. But the data that resides on the Internet and the way we access it, known as the World Wide Web, is owned by us all, in some form, either through paying taxes to the government or through our support of the private sector by signing up for services provided by these telecommunication companies.<\/p>\n
At its foundation, \u201cthe Internet\u201d is simply a web of network nodes connected to other network nodes all around the world. \u201cInter\u201d means between and \u201cnet\u201d stands for \u201cNetwork.\u201d So, the Internet is a network between networks, connecting all networks together for the purposes of communication and sharing information. From its creation in 1969 to today, the individuals and organizations that maintain and develop technologies for the Internet are passionate about the free and open use of the Internet. The distributed nature of the Internet is what makes it so robust. Because it is owned by many different organizations simultaneously, the Internet continues to function even if individual elements go offline.<\/p>\n
TCP\/IP<\/h4>\n
Initially in the early days of the Internet \u2013 originally known as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) \u2013 there were many competing networking standards. But by the early 1980s, a clear leader emerged. The world began to adopt as its standard communication protocol the suite of protocols known as TCP\/IP. Transmission Control Protocol\/Internet Protocol is a layered suite of protocols that provides functions related to addressing, routing, session management, data formatting and more. It has become the de facto standard for all Internet communication. While competing standards do still exist, in order to use the Internet, one must support TCP\/IP.<\/p>\n