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The Internet: What's Out there For You?

Nearly 200 million people using computers worldwide are linked together through the internet, primarily via telephone lines. Each individual user is linked into a small network which in turn is linked to a larger network, and so on until you get to the “backbones” which are actual physical cables which connect major points, or nodes. Each computer on the network has an address, called an IP (Internet Protocol) address.


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Author(s): Cassie Rice, Virginia Bruce

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1997

Event: Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association
1997 - Boise, ID