Networking technology consists of the hardware devices and software programs that transfer information between computers. How Computers View Information People use computers to create, manipulate, and store many kinds of information, such as numbers, words, pictures, sound, and video.
Information is stored on a computer in digital form.
Streams or blocks of data, like files, email, and web pages all appear to a computer as collections of ones and zeros. In the same way that you can measure the speed of cars or airplanes, you can measure the speed at which a particular piece of technology can transfer information. A bit is either 0 or 1, with 0 meaning off and 1 meaning on. The term binary means a choice between two possible options-0 and 1. Computers combine collections of bits into more complex forms in order to represent data.