what is the internet?

Question

interduce the internet

Answer 1

The Electronic Universe

Answer 2

The Web (or the Internet) is millions of individual documents known as "Web pages." Every Web page can contain text, pictures, graphics, animations, video, sounds, and hypertext links to other Web pages. A Hypertext link permits a user to move from one Web page to another, regardless of whether a page is stored on the same server or on a server across the world. Web pages are accessed and viewed (also called "surfing the Internet") through software called a Web browser. Currently the three most popular Web browsers are Internet Explorer, Fire Fox and Netscape Navigator. Web pages are maintained at a Web site, which is a computer acting as a server that supports the Web's HTTP protocol.When accessing a Web site, a user is first linked to a site's home page, generally an HTML (hyper-text mark-up language) document that functions as an index, or springboard, to the rest of a site's contents. Web sites can be small or large, and as simple or complex as its designer desires.Many large organizations and businesses create and manage their own Web sites. Smaller companies and individual users depend largely on an ISP to host their Web sites. Countless numbers of individuals have created personal Web pages on a vast range of subjects.The Web, the world's ultimate research tool and resource guide, is full of information on nearly every topic known. The world has never seen anything quite as vast, and so full of potential, as the World Wide Web, and it continues to grow by the second

Answer 3

A global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions. Unlike online services, which are centrally controlled, the Internet is decentralized by design. Each Internet computer, called a host, is independent. Its operators can choose which Internet services to use and which local services to make available to the global Internet community. Remarkably, this anarchy by design works exceedingly well.

Answer 4

The internet is, put simply, a thing that connects every computer in the world together. It started out as a network and was designed to allow everyone to quickly access data and programs off of any site.

Answer 5

the Internet is a definition on the ability to browse throughout the globe without having to go there.. it means the world is brought to you in the form of computer application.. what you are using now to ask this question is Internet... the Internet allows you to surf anywhere possible in search of almost anything and retrieve them if possible..

Answer 6

It's a computer-to-computer integrated information network used primarily to transfer data between said computers. By the way, Wiki is edited by it's users proving it a less than reliable source of information. Use http://encarta.msn.com if you must use an online encyclopedia or research using any of the following search engines: http://search.yahoo.com http://google.com or http://search.cnn.com

Answer 7

when in doubt.. Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Answer 8

A new God, new religion, is everything you want

Answer 9

it is just an urban legend. it doesn't really exist.