What's The Internet?

The Internet is more than just the Web. It is Email. It is File Transfer. It is Newsgroups.

Each computer on the Internet has one of two roles to play:

1. Server Computers provide services to other machines, such as hosting web pages, delivering email, or allowing for connections from a home PC to the Internet.

2. Client Computers make requests of Servers. An example would be your computer requesting a web page from a server.

Servers and Clients on the Internet can communicate because they all use the same language: the Internet Protocol.