With the Internet much of a buzzword recently, and otherwise serious people joyriding along the Informational Superhighway," computer networking seems to be moving toward the status of TV sets and microwave ovens. The Internet is recently getting an unusually high media coverage, and social science majors are descending on Usenet newsgroups to conduct researches on the Internet Culture." Carrier companies are working to introduce new transmission techniques like ATM that offer many times the bandwidth the average network link of today has.
Of course, networking has been around for a long time. Connecting computers to form local area networks has been common practice even at small installations, and so have been long-haul links using public telephone lines. A rapidly growing conglomerate of world-wide networks has, however, made joining the global village a viable option even for small nonprofit organizations of private computer users. Setting up an Internet host with mail and news capabilities offering dial-up access has become affordable, and the advent of ISDN will doubtlessly accelerate this trend.
The Linux Network Administrators Guide
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