Understanding the Digital Revolution

Welcome to the Network of Networks.- Brave New (Digital) World.- A Brief History of the Internet.- How Does a Computer Network Work?.- LAN The Basic Building Block of the Internet.- WLAN The Network in the Ether.- Wide Area Networks The Nervous System of the Internet.- How Do Our Media Get into the Computer?.- Pixel Codes BMP, JPEG, PNG, and Co.- The Sound out of the Machine.- From Flip Book to Video Streaming.- Internetworking How to Globally Interconnect Local Networks?.- The TCP/IP Protocol Stack The Operating System of the Internet.- IPv4 The Good Spirit of the Internet.- IPv6 The Future of the Internet (of Things).- IPv6 How the Internet Finds its Countless Connected Devices.- TCP or How Do I know that my Data Packet has Arrived?.- Of Handshakes and Ports Data Connection via TCP.- From Emails to Streaming: Nothing Works Without Application Protocols.- The Domain Name System The Phone Book of the Internet.- How Emails Reach Their Recipients.- How Email Became the Prime Communication Channel.- How Email Became the Prime Communication Channel.- How the WWW Changed Our World.- HTTP, HTML, and CSS Our Little Helpers on the Web.- How the Internet Became the Largest Media Library in the World.- Who Governs the Internet.