Does the internet have a physical location?

Answer 1

The Internet is merely a number of interconnected systems, your system being one of them.

It was originally designed for sharing information between university research departments; and also as a fail safe means of communications for the Department of Defence in case of attack.

It was NOT invented by Al Gore contrary to his claims.

There are several large servers that act as a DNS backbone, but their function is merely to resolve DNS addresses, so you can type in places to search for as i.e. Microsoft.com, instead of 10.0.345.765 . (much easier to remember)

Answer 2

The internet is Ether. It is constantly evolving and growing. Until a few years ago, the internet was earthbound. But the expense of running cable from here to there was more than could be afforded. Now, there are sattelite relays which move traffic from one point to another over oceans and across large distances.

Also, NASA has implemented some deep space transcievers to move data from earth to other areas in the solar system to communicate with devices like the Mars Rovers and other sattelites around the other planets and even deep space probes. This is a restricted, yet a full extension of the earthbound internet. Just like the internet when in it's infancy was a top secret project and is now public.....in time, the space network will become public and from there it's use will bring about new technologies and gadgets.

My estimation is that in about another century, communicating to others who are making a journey in space will be commonplace.........Have you ever watched the original star trek....most of what was fantasy is now reality......

Answer 3

There are several servers I believe there are 11 of them that form the backbone of the Internet. Wherever those are located are the physical locations

Answer 4

Nope. The Internet is a worldwide entity composed of multitudes of individual servers and single computers. There is no single hub that could be called the center or home, unless you want to go back to the first server and call that home. I doubt that one even exists anymore as I understand it was a research project involving M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA and the U.S. Government. (I may be wrong about the original involvees as it has been a long time since I studied the internet's history)

Answer 5

Yes, but it's spreaded all over the world.

Internet is just a network of computers, but a network of millions of computers. Your computer, when connected to the internet, is part of that very network.

I keep it short to let others comment as well :)