Windows Networking Troubleshooting

© Mike Halsey and Joli Ballew 2017

Mike Halsey and Joli Ballew, Windows Networking Troubleshooting, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3222-4_1

1. Understanding Networks

Mike Halsey¹  and Joli Ballew²

(1)Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

(2)Garland, Texas, USA

Despite the advent of the personal computer revolution in the late 1970s/early 1980s, computer networking can be traced all the way back to the early 1950s, more than 20 years earlier. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s yet another technology that grew out of the Second World War, with one of the first implementations being the connection of U.S. military radar systems.

The advent of what has come to be known as the Internet can also be traced back before the Advanced Research Projects ...