=== - Connect ===
=== - Internet Routing ===
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'''Note:''' The Internet is a packet-switching network. This means that your email, for example, is broken down into small individual packets which are then sent independently of each other along the many possible routes on the network that connect you to your friend's computer. These packets are then reassembled at the receiver's end to re-create your email. Important! You do not control how data travels through the Internet once you hit the send button.
===- Locate===
Now that you're connected, let's discuss what happens when you request to open a particular website and how this site then delivers back to your computer. Numerous protocols and technical standards govern how the Internet and all of its users locate and communicate with each other. The most important of which we will discuss has to do with Internet addressing. Because everyone on the Internet adheres to these, you are able to open webiste.com and send an email from your computer to a friend's mobile phone in another country.