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How
is the information sent?
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Information
-- email, web pages, phone calls, everything
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sent
over the internet -- is broken up
into small units,
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called
packets
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Packets
contain an IP address, a sequence number and
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some
actual information, a part of the whole message
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This
scheme is called the Transmission Control Protocol
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and
Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP
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The
packets are sent independently, usually taking
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different
routes, and reassembled at the destination to
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reconstruct
the original message
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