How Does the Internet Reach Your Home?

Have you ever tapped a link and wondered how a picture, video, or webpage appears almost instantly?

The internet may seem invisible, but behind every click is an enormous system of routers, fiber-optic cables, neighborhood networks, data centers, servers, and even cables stretching across the ocean floor.

How Does the Internet Reach Your Home? takes curious young readers on an incredible journey from a device inside their home to networks that can stretch around the world-and back again.

Kids will discover how a request travels through Wi-Fi or a cable to a router, then through a modem or fiber terminal and out through neighborhood connections. How_Does_The_Internet_Reach_You...

They'll follow the journey into larger networks and discover how much of the world's long-distance internet traffic travels as flashes of light through fiber-optic cables running beneath streets, across the countryside, and even along the ocean floor between continents. How_Does_The_Internet_Reach_You...

Young readers will explore network centers, powerful routers, data centers, and servers and learn how information is broken into tiny pieces called packets that can take different paths through the network. How_Does_The_Internet_Reach_You... How_Does_The_Internet_Reach_You...

Then they'll follow those packets all the way back home, where the router sends them to the correct device and the device puts everything back together-in a process that usually happens in less than a second! How_Does_The_Internet_Reach_You...

Packed with colorful illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, How Does the Internet Reach Your Home? reveals the incredible physical infrastructure hiding behind something kids use every day.

Perfect for curious kids who love computers, technology, science, engineering, and discovering how the world works!

Part of the How the World Works series-educational books that reveal the amazing people, machines, and systems behind the world we see every day.