The idea of networking is probably as old as telecommunications
itself. Consider people living in the stone age, where drums may
have been used to transmit messages between individuals. Suppose
caveman A wants to invite caveman B for a game of hurling rocks at
each other, but they live too far apart for B to hear A banging his
drum. So what are A's options? He could 1)-walk over to B's place,
2)-get a bigger drum, or 3)-ask C, who lives halfway between them,
to forward the message. The last is called networking.
The Network Administrators' Guide. Olaf Kirch
Copyright (c) 2000 Marc Tommasi.