According to Wikipedia, the Internet (or, interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies
The Internet can be defined as innovation plus integration. Innovation is best defined as not doing different things but doing things differently. The Internet perfectly carries out the exchange of information. However, it does so a bit differently. Communication engineering takes care of global communication for all services using one technology, known as the Internet.
The Internet is the integration of electrical and electronics communication engineering and data networking to amalgamate and support all services. It is a migratory technology of data or computer networking that branched from electrical communication engineering. All these streams follow nature. To best understand the development of the Internet and its future trends, it will help to understand these technologies in comparison with nature.
In this series of articles based on the Internet, we begin from the very first electrical communication engineering to data networking, before ending with an in-depth account of the Internet. In the process, major current and future developments of the Internet such as inter-planetary Internet, quantum Internet, mobile Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging issues will be taken up.
Electrical communication
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be,” said William Hazlitt, the English comic writer, in 1819.
When a baby is born, what it does at first is a form of communication, that is, weeping. This communication is natural voice communication. Natural voice (face-to-face) communication also involves video communication—as, when we speak, we see too. Besides, when we speak and see, we transmit data. Hence, this type of communication can also be called natural multimedia (voice+video+data/text) communication.
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