The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know about Computer Networking and How the Internet Works

By N.D. Birrell, M.A. Ould, M. A. Ould

Book Overview

Doug Comer, best-selling Internetworking author, provides an understandable overview of not only the Internet, but of networking technology and terminology. The Internet Book is an accurate and very up-to-date Internet and networking literacy book. The reader learns not only how to use the Internet, but how it works and how it evolved, Practical information is provided on how everything from the analogue to digital revolution, to local and wide area networks. It assumes minimal technical knowledge and includes analogies and examples to explain complex technology in a straightforward way. The author explains: how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how it works, and what it can do for you; the difference between a LAN, WAN and an Internet; how to find information on the Internet; and how the Internet uses multimedia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132335530
• ISBN13: 9780132335539
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

You're no "dummy" but new? This one's for you.

He's the leader in his field. I've used his books for teaching and as referrals. He's so readable but does not talk down to you like the silly "dummy" stuff. You'll be so glad you gave this a try.

Amazing Book

Douglas Comer has an amazing ability to cut through the heavy fog that surrounds Internet technology. Many well trained and accomplished academics are terrible writers. I have wasted much money buying from these authors. I have read Douglas Comer's many books from detailed implentation of TCP/IP to overview of computer networks and internet. I am not surprised by the excellent quality of this book. I will buy any book...

The book is suitable for all the beginners to Internet

From this book ,I know that the author understand the Internet and has a lot of expierences on Internet.He can explain the theories and practices clearly and logicaly. By reading this book,I gradually understand the Internet ,that is :how the Internet can provide the communication function and can make you share the resources with the others.

An excellent high-level overview of computer networking

Comer's book presents a highly technical topic in a readable and easily understood format--almost like prose! I started to read the book in small parts in order to understand only particular chapters, but it is so readable that I read it from the first chapter to the last. In fact, I read over 100 pages in one sitting--something that normally I can do with someone like John Gresham or Tom Clancy, not an author of computer...

A great foundation for 'dummies' in what the net is.

If you're like me, one of those 'dummie' PC users that has never been able to speak the language of the MIS people, this author does a great job of putting stuff in a language you can understand. Mysterious and intimidating acronyms like LAN and ASKII suddenly seem so simple. Why is this kind of person, who can translate between the language of MIS people and the rest of us, so hard to come by? I hope this author writes...