Intro to the Internet | 🗒️ Ben's Notes
Whether you’re buying hot sauce or browsing YouTube, stuff is broken into smaller chunks (via TCP), sent to you through several intermediate shipments (via IP), and then reassembled into the original content (again via
Aditya Agashe • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)
This post is meant to take someone from having the vaguest ideas about how computers work to having a general understanding of all the important concepts and how they relate.
Julian Hunt • The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
I believe the common prevailing metaphor—the internet as cloud—is problematic. The internet is not one all-encompassing, mysterious, and untouchable thing. (In early patent drawings depicting the internet, it appears as related shapes: a blob, brain, or explosion.) These metaphors obfuscate the reality that the internet is made up of individual nod... See more