what is internet?

Question

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Answer 1

Uhhhh...How did you get here? Who let you in?

Answer 2

n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated
beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense
research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal
was to develop a network architecture for military
command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and
including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was
conceived from the start as a way to get most economical use out of
then-scarce large-computer resources.

As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to
support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms
of distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic
mail quickly grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research
labs and defense contractors early discovered the Internet's
potential as a medium of communication between _humans_ and linked
up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix
of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists.
The roots of this lexicon lie in those early years.

Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways.
The typical machine/OS combination moved from DEC PDP-10s and
PDP-20s, running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, to PDP-11s and VAXes and
Suns running Unix, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel
microcomputers. The Internet's protocols grew more capable, most
notably in the move from NCP/IP to TCP/IP in 1982 and the
implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was around this
time that people began referring to the collection of interconnected
networks with ARPANET at its core as "the Internet".

The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines -
connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related
research project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations
clamoring to join didn't fit this profile. In 1986, the National
Science Foundation built NSFnet to open up access to its five
regional supercomputing centers; NSFnet became the backbone of the
Internet, replacing the original ARPANET pipes (which were formally
shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994 the pieces of NSFnet
were sold to major telecommunications companies until the Internet
backbone had gone completely commercial.

That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture
discovered the Internet. Once again, the killer app was not the
anticipated one - rather, what caught the public imagination was the
hypertext and multimedia features of the World Wide Web.
Subsequently the Internet has seen off its only serious challenger
(the OSI protocol stack favored by European telecom monopolies) and
is in the process of absorbing into itself many of the proprietary
networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after
1980. It is now (1996) a commonplace even in mainstream media to
predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key
unifying communications technology of the next century. See also
the network and Internet address.

Answer 3

The internet is a series of equipment/hardware allowing storage of electronic content, and connectivity of computers.

The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.

Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, along with many other services including e-mail, file sharing and others described below.

Answer 4

The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.

Answer 5

I have an article from Wikipedia explaining the many aspects of what the Internet is?

Answer 6

Al Gore's brain child

Answer 7

2 pointz w00t

Answer 8

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Answer 9

the thing you are on now

Answer 10

it is wot u r already doin.. ur on it now..