Using the Internet
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What is the internet?
Perhaps the best way of describing the Internet is to imagine it as a huge transport vehicle for information stored in files or documents on another computer. Some have even compared it to a giant international plumbing system. The internet is thus a network of networks, linking computers to other computers which share TCP/IP protocols (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol). It is easiest to understand this by looking at the IP as the address of a house (which is the information you want to access) and the TCP as the road you will use to get to the house (the way of getting to the information). Sometimes referred to as the World Wide Web, the internet is one of the most important developments in modern technology as it allows its users to very, very quickly access information from the widest possible sources, even if that information is on the other side of the world.
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References
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People as historical sources - interveiwing members of the community
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