What are protocols?
In information technology, protocols are the special sets of rules that two computers “agree” to use to communicate. One basic purpose of protocols is to make it possible for computers and networks of differing platforms to communicate. The different platforms could refer to hardware (e.g. a mainframe computer at a large company, an individual PC, or an Apple computer) or to software (e.g. MS Windows, Unix, or Mac OS). Each platform performs communications, and accomplishes most other tasks, in very different ways. Protocols which can be implemented across, or without regard to platforms make it possible to bridge these differences. If you’ve been around computers, or read about them, you’ve probably heard about some protocols. Even if you didn’t know it. If you’ve been on the Internet, or read about it, you can’t help but to have heard about protocols. One you have probably seen mentioned is HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol). This is the protocol that computers use to transfer web p
