The Internet is one of the most powerful tools ever created by man. The Internet is basically a wide network which connects all computers around the globe with each one having access to the Internet. Through the Internet, individuals can communicate to each other and share data from virtually anywhere with just an Internet connection. You can get email services from the Internet and you can use chat rooms as well. This has made the Internet very popular among people who want to share data and work through it, thanks to the various services like email, instant messaging and chat rooms provided.

However, there are some things that you might not be aware of when it comes to how the Internet works, including why it is so powerful. The Internet uses certain protocols or standards that allow users to transfer data packets in the network. When we talk about the Internet and how it works, we usually refer to the protocols that are present in the network to allow computers on the network to exchange or receive information packets. Among the protocols that are used are transport control protocol, which controls the amount of data that can be exchanged in a certain transaction, personal domain data packet protocol, which allows people to specify a certain area of the network and define subnet masks, the Internet layer which processes the data packets and controls how they are delivered to their destinations, Internet gateway, which allows data packets to be transmitted across the network and header, which identifies and modify the data packets before they are sent.

Now that you have a basic idea about how the Internet works and its structure, let us move on to more practical aspects of the Internet and how it works. One of the things that you must know about the Internet is that it operates through different types of protocols. These are the IP protocol, which are commonly referred to as Internet Protocol (IP), the SMTP protocol which is used for various email services, the TCP protocol which are used for online data and voice applications, the ICMP protocol, which are used for general network protocols, the PPP protocol for point to point interconnecting and the main frame protocol (MIFQ) which is used for the ICMPv4 that is a standard in the internet backbone. There are also other protocols that are part of the Internet such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTML), XML, TCP, IPsec, JPS Format, MetaCP, Kerberos, TSL/TKEAP and others.