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Overview #

Topcis covered in “Netze spinnen”: traditional communication - transmission technologies - line codes - ethernet protocol - data frames - collision detection and avoidance - MAC and EUI adresses - bridges and switches - history of postal systems - the internet - routers - routing tables and protocols - internet address system - network layers - internet protocol - transmission control protocol - specialization and division of labor in societies - client server model - world wide web - peer to peer networks - bitcoin - the cloud - internet of things - the endocrine system and the nervous system - ants and superorganisms.

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