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Chapter 1 Networks Will Not Take Over the World, and L A I Other Network Basics R E In This Chapter T ▶ Getting a handle on networks A ▶ Considering why networking is useful (and is everywhere) M ▶ Telling the difference between servers and clients ▶ Looking under the hood at the network operating system D ▶ Asking “How does it work when a network works if a network works for me?” E (Say what?) T ▶ Assessing how networks change computing life H ▶ Identifying (and offering sympathy to) the network administrator ▶ Comparing servers to clients: What have they got that you don’t got? G I R Y omputer networks get a bad rap in the movies. In the Terminator C P movies, Skynet (a computer network of the future) takes over the planet, builds deadly terminator robots, and sends them back through time O to kill everyone unfortunate enough to have the name Sarah Connor. In The Matrix movies, a vast and powerful computer network enslaves humans and C keeps them trapped in a simulation of the real world. And in one of Matthew Broderick’s first movies, War Games, a computer whiz kid nearly starts World War III by connecting to a