Chapter 8
The Language of the Internet: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
This chapter explores the language and functions used in data communication and the Internet. Data communication, specifically over the Internet, has a language all its own. This language of the Internet, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), was developed as a universal language that would serve as a universal standard when possible to avoid all the pitfalls of picking any one proprietary system.
There are many languages for data communication. TCP/IP is certainly not the only one, or the best one, but it is the language of the Internet (a very popular tool in today’s culture). We will look at this language in depth in this ...
