Internet

Internet is defined as a connected group of computer networks allowing for electronic communication. The networks:

Internet History

It began in 1973 as a project proposed by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to link research facilities at defense agencies and universities within the United States.

The World Wide Web was designed by the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989 and allowed for all available published information to be searched and viewed in graphical mode.
By 1996, there were more than 25 million computers online in over 180 countries.

There is no central controlling computer or person that directs traffic or information.
Users gain access through gateways.
Information is sent/received by users based on their Internet addresses.

(noun)

An example of the Internet is what you access when you use Wi-Fi.
An example of the Internet is what current research projects in remote locations use to broadcast their day-to-day progress and discoveries to viewers around the globe.

See Internet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an extensive computer network made up of thousands of other, smaller business, academic, and governmental networks

Origin: < inter- + net(work)

See Internet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol.

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