Warriors of the Net

This was a great little film we watched that really gave me a better understanding of exactly how information is distributed physically through the Internet. The information packets were shown as something similar to trucks with their load being a piece of information. It showed the perils of the router and the firewall and almost personified the process a Little. The best part was that it was dumbed down enough for me to understand. It was a lot more entertaining too, especially after learning of the commercial rumblings involving Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research Inc. and Apple. I did learn however that the Internet refers to a network of networks, whereas the Web is like just one strand on this Internet. Cyberspace is a bit different again and was best described in the lecture notes as "the interconnection of reality and imagination"