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How the Internet works   How does the Internet Work? The Internet works through a packet routing network in accordance with the  Internet Protocol (IP) , the  Transport Control Protocol  (TCP), and other protocols. What’s a protocol? A protocol is a set of rules specifying how computers should communicate with   each other over a network. For example, the  Transport Control Protocol  has a rule that if one computer sends data to another computer, the destination computer should let the source computer know if any data was missing so the source computer can re-send it. Or  the  Internet Protocol  which specifies how computers should route information to other computers by attaching addresses onto the data it sends. What’s a packet? Data sent across the Internet is called a  message . Before a  message  is sent, it is first split in many fragments called  packets . These  packets  are sent independently of eac...