Where is the internet?

Question

We all use it. We use computers to access it, but 'where' is it?

I know im on the internet!!! Duh! I know i'm using it! I'm asking 'where' it is, as in....where on the earth is it? Not...how do i get on it! Lol

Answer 1

The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.

Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.

At the IPTO, Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran[citation needed] who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.

The first TCP/IP-wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet.

It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, BITNET and the various commercial and educational networks, such as X.25, Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation since the 1970s. This network eventually merged with the others in the 1990s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks, especially the international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.


Growth
The network gained a public face in the 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.

Up to this time, the Internet connected only mainframe computers. In 1992, Guatemalan computer scientist Luis Furlán devised how to connect personal computers to the Internet.

An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW based upon HyperCard. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 usage of the word "Internet" had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its misusage as a reference to the World Wide Web.

Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate) During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997.[3] This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network. [citation needed

Answer 2

It's all a figment of our imagination, just like my answer.....

seriously, you won't be able to see the internet, but it is there, where-ever there is a server(ISP), and computer users, I'm sure there will be an access point to the internet. As previously stated above, how else do you think your question made it here, via the internet.

Answer 3

It is everywhere! It is in these phone lines you see hanging on the road side, it is in the telephone exchanges, it is in the cables that distribute the television, it is in the waves of radio communications (like your mobile), it is in the satellites over our heads...
Think of it as this question: "Where is the telephone ?".
That is why we cannot "control it": break a wire somewhere, and the message goes another route...
There are, however, a few "places" (I do not know "where" and it is not important) that gather the names of the "domains". These "registrars" keep track of the name and addresses of the internet sites: this is nothing else but a huge "white pages" collection of everyone who "is" on the net.
This is only to prevent two identical names (addresses) to exist. There are copies of this "registery" in many physical places, and they constantly link together to keep "in sync" (have the same data).
If one registry failed, who cares: there are other copies...

Answer 4

Apparently, no one wants to give you a straight simple answer.

The internet is not in any one place. The internet is a method of connecting many computers together so that they may communicate efficiently. There is not one central "switchboard" that connects all the computers. Rather, it is more like a spider web (which is why we call it the world wide web.) Your computer is connected directly to your service provider. Your service provider may have connections to 1000 other service providers, who, in turn have connections to 1000 other service providers, etc, etc. These service providers are scattered all over the world.

Answer 5

The icon with the big blue letter E is your access to the internet. As to where it is elsewhere, the provider has the home page. It's called a remote computer.

Answer 6

Yeah. Technology in general, really. At times when we're supposed to be social, it saddens me because people are messing around on their phone or computer instead of healthily interacting with live people. I guess it's okay if you don't spend too much time with technology, but there's never a missed opportunity to build real life relationships, you know what I mean? Technology definitely has its positives and negatives.

Answer 7

internet

Answer 8

its a connection of network where programs have been performed to design a site and is being accessed.

Answer 9

It's just like God - only, we can prove that the internet exists! He he he

Answer 10

THE INTERNET IS IN A BIG BLACK BOX AND CABLE GO IN IT LIKE PHONE CABLE IN SIDE IT SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ALL THE CABLE IN SIDE IT THAT HOW PEOPLE USE THE INTERNET OK AND MORE CABLE OK