Networking For Dummies
Chapter One
Networks Will Not Take Over the
World, and Other Network Basics
In This Chapter
* Getting a handle on networks
* Considering why networking is useful (and is everywhere)
* Telling the difference between servers and clients
* Looking under the hood at the network operating system
* Asking "How does it work when a network works if a network
works for me?" (Say what?)
* Assessing how networks change computing life
* Identifying (and offering sympathy to) the network administrator
* Comparing servers to clients: What have they got that you don't got?
Computer networks get a bad rap in the movies. In the Terminator movies,
Skynet (a computer network of the future) takes over the planet, builds
deadly terminator robots, and sends them back through time to kill everyone
unfortunate enough to have the name Sarah Connor. In The Matrix movies, a
vast and powerful computer network enslaves humans and keeps them
trapped in a simulation of the real world. And i ... read full excerpt from Networking For Dummies ebook
