Inside the Internet: A Journet across the Network

What is inside the Internet? What is under the bonnet in the hidden world of the World Wide Web? How does a message, sent from my PC or mobile phone, return to its origin after trans-versing the international connections of the Internet? Is it safe? How can the Internet let bad things happen? Inside the Internet describes how your home computer, mobile phone or office network connects to the Internet to form a unique path across telephone exchanges, undersea communication cables and satellite links that make up the Internet in an easy to understand non-computer-nerdy way. When surfing the Internet, you appear to have the whole of the Internet dedicated to you, an experience shared with millions of other Internet users worldwide – we explain how this conundrum occurs. Along the way, we look at the history of communication at a distance from the days of the telegraph and the telephone to how anything and everything can be connected to the Internet of today. Armed with a better understanding and a focussed view of the Internet, we can reap the benefits of the utopia of Internet applications while avoiding the perils and pitfalls that the Internet inherently presents and provide answers to the questions above and advice for a safer journey across the Internet.