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.