Chapter 2: What Exactly Is a Network?
When I first heard the word "network," I thought it sounded complicated.
It turns out the idea is actually simple.
A network is just two or more devices connected together so they can communicate and share resources.
For example:
📱 Your phone connected to your home Wi-Fi
💻 Your laptop connected to a printer
🏢 Computers connected within an office
All of these are examples of networks.
What surprised me was that the Internet itself is simply a massive network made up of millions of smaller networks connected together.
Without networks:
❌ No WhatsApp messages
❌ No YouTube videos
❌ No Google searches
❌ No online banking
Understanding networks is important because cybersecurity professionals spend a lot of time protecting them.
You can't secure something you don't understand.
That's one of the biggest lessons networking taught me.
Next, I'll share the different types of networks and where we use them in everyday life.
#CyberSecurity #Networking #NetworkPlus #LearningInPublic
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Things to research when bored:
-String theory
-Dark matter
-Analects of Confucius
-The Fermi Paradox
-Quantum Entanglement
-Time dilation and relativity
-Transhumanism
-Lost Civilisations and Myths
-Political Bias in Cartography
-Bioluminescence
-Street art movements
-Legends of Werewolves in Europe
-The Voynich Manuscript
-Green children of Woolpit
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The biggest failure of my Nigerian parents' generation was their complete inability to pass on any ideas or ideology of subtance to their children.
The ONLY thing they taught their children was "Jesus" and "Muhammad". And those unfortunate children have grown up with Christianity and Islam making up their entire personality. They have nothing else upstairs.
Ask the people from that empty-headed generation any question that requires actual thinking or philosophy, and watch how intellectually empty their reply is.
"How can I succeed in life?"
>50 y.o. Nigerian dummy: "Fear God, pray everyday, don't expose your private parts, read your books in school, Fear God..."
"How do I find and keep the right partner?"
Elderly Nigerian grave-dodger: "Go to church every week, pray endlessly, maintain your fajinity, and fear God..."
"How can we fix Nigeria and make it somewhere people don't need to run away from?"
65 year-old Nigerian oxygen hoarder: "The whole country needs to pray for divine intervention to torsh the hearts of awa lidaz..."
An entire generation of olodos who raised even worse dummies than them, but somehow all believe that they did the world a favour by birthing children they had nothing intellectual to pass on to. Everyone else in the world who couldn't pass on economic capital to their children could at least pass on intellectual and moral capital.
All that these cemetery-evading dumbos passed on to us was "Fear God, pray, develop a neurotic obsession with your sex organs and everything that has to do with them, pray, and fear God some more." This is the inheritance we were supposed to build into our competitive advantage in a world where serious people live?
Damn.
@bibzyCarter This is the convenient logic they often used in social warfare: Treat the "Top-Tier Man" as a outliers while treating the "Bottom-Tier Man" as the universal
Classic "Heads I win, Tails you lose" game.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
1. If you have a passport, go for international conferences.
2. You don’t have to be a PhD, Postdoc or PI.
3. Some organisations even have funding for participants who do not have special roles. They are called attendees
4. If you have an area of interest, reading about it is great but not enough.
5. Go to conferences and meet people. Many of these are fully funded.
6. Take few minutes, and use modern tech to your own advantage.
7. Using AI “List 10 international conferences in AMR that are fully funded for Nigerians”
8. That’s how to go about it. Don’t just keep your passport under the bed.
Best wishes