Techie in Training

Technology is an amazing thing that has led to many advancements of humankind. The status of today’s level of technology has made it possible to commu nicate via written and video messages, as well as audio, in real time. The advent and popularization of the Internet also has brought mountains of information to the fingertips of anyone that can access a computer, mobile or otherwise, and the largest network we have. Unfortunately, with all these amazing cap abilities, there also comes a significant risk, both to the individual person and businesses around the world.   

                Packets of information travel through the Internet by navigating along a path of routers between your computer and the destination sought, such as Google. Like a dot-to-dot exercise, the information “hops” from one router to another along the web to reach its destination, which is the domain name or IP address selected by the user. The entire process is incredibly fast, as evidenced by the fact that the packets’ delivery is measured in milliseconds. By using the command "ping" on ones computer, you can see the path the packets travel to request and deliver the desired information. Here are the results of my ping exercise for Google, a villa resort in France, and Amazon UK (completed on my Windows 10 desktop computer):