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The term, "node," is not as commonly used today as it was in the past when commercial internet providers were less common than they are now. Today, people use the expression "internet provider" or just "IP" much more frequently than the (almost) interchangeable term "node."
From my understanding, the term "node" is mostly used today by technical support people or people, such as myself, whose accounts go back to the pre-internet, Bitnet days. Different categories of nodes [i.e. .com, .net, .gov, .org, .edu] travel on different parts of the internet. People with older, slow modems can tell a difference in connection time with another node in their category and one from a separate category due to the cross over.
Lynn |
