What is a Network (Computer Network)

Computer network is also: two or more computers that are connected together to share resources such as hardware, data, and software. Most common are the local area network (LAN) and the wide area network (WAN). A LAN can range from a few computers in a small office to several thousand computers spread throughout dozens of buildings on a school campus or in an industrial park. Expand this latter scenario to encompass multiple geographic locations, possibly on different continents, and you have a WAN

Networks (Computer Network) is two or more computers that are connected together for the purpose to share resources, information, or software. There are different types of Networks, LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), MAN (Metropolitan Area Network), and SAN (Storage Area Network, System Area Network, Server Area Network, or even Small Area Network)

 Everyone uses some kind of network today it may be a LAN, WAN or the one that is becoming very popular today the WLAN. Today children are using computers in elementary school and to get school assignments, and to do school assignments. A computer today is almost like MP3s and DVDs all most every American family owns at least one of them.

So because you have a computer does that mean you are a part of a network? If you have at least one child chances are you have internet access. If you have internet access you are using a WAN. You are connecting to the WWW (World Wide Web) maybe to play games, or go to Facebook. You may also have a desktop, printer, and a laptop. Both computers are sharing the printer that means they are on a LAN. You are sharing resources on a LAN.