Let freedom ring

摘要

TO MOST BUSINESS USERS, THE "IP INTERNET," as we have known it over the past decade, looks like nothing more than a computer exchanging or accessing information on other computers via email and the World Wide Web. Under the covers, however, the network connecting those computers has continually evolved. Internet technology originally consisted of desktop LAN-attached computers at work connected by simple routers. These computers migrated home with the deployment of dial-up facilities, and into the road warrior's hotel room with the development of laptop computers. The palmtop consumed the functions of a meeting planner and a pager, making Internet technology something we could begin to call "convenient."