In How the Internet Works, Preston Gralla shows how to get information from here to there on the world's largest computer network. With assistance from illustrators Sarah Ishidi, Mina Reimer, and Stephen Adams, Gralla presents a series of full-color spreads, which each took separate some aspects of Internet technology. You'll find explanations of Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Web browsers, electronic mail, Web search engines, multimedia, and more. While Gralla gives a lot of details about how Internet telephony works, an explanation of PointCast consists of, to paraphrase, "you install special client software, which communicates with a special server software and presents news to you." - David Wall Topics covered: Internet architecture, addresses, domain names, routers, connectivity, e-mail, newsgroups, web browser, push technology, and safety and security of the Internet.