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The motorway and its role in the Internet designing

Picture I https://avoimenkoodinmaailma.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa The motorway has been inspired the creators of the Internet. The International network is called the information superhighway, and the similarity with road and physical traffic is similar. The cars act like data packages and there are a crossroads and another kind of things in the physical world, what are in the different for on the Internet.  The international network is similar but different looking concept than the motorway, but the working principles are the same. When we are sending the data packages to the net, we would probably not know, that some packages have right of way right. And they are allowed to go first in the net, and in those cases, the router would collect other packages in the memory, and store them until the right of way packages have passed that router. After that, they are allowed to continue their trip on the Internet. The Internet is more flexible than the motorway because ...