Our upstanding role model leaps to the computer and logs on to his favorite web site. Doubting that our hero would chance paying for the service, he has opted to go to one of the scores of free chat sites on the web. What transpires from this point is the business of himself and his cyber partner.
Lets take a look at the architecture of the Internet for just a moment.
I promise not to get into too much detail. I will not force you to recall the OSI model or even the smallest of Network Essentials. I will simply paint a very simple picture for you to illustrate my point. As you read this, you may not have been aware that it had to come from somewhere. Well, I wrote it and sent it all the way from Raleigh North Carolina.