CS50 Business - Lecture 5 - Implementing the Internet (live, unedited)

The podcast explores the implementation of the internet, detailing its evolution from early electronic communication forms like the telegraph and telephone to the modern internet where computers intercommunicate without human intervention. It highlights the importance of protocols such as IP, TCP, DNS, DHCP, and HTTP in enabling machine-to-machine communication. The discussion covers how IP addresses uniquely identify computers and how routers facilitate data transfer across vast distances. It also addresses the challenges of IP address exhaustion and solutions like NAT and IPv6. The podcast further explains how HTTP governs website interactions, detailing the steps involved in accessing a webpage, and concludes by examining scaling strategies like vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, co-location, and cloud computing to manage increasing internet usage demands.