What is the internet?

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What is the internet?

Answer 1

you are using it right now

Answer 2

Internet, the



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international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises (called gateways or service providers) that enable individuals to access the network. The most popular features of the Internet include electronic mail (e-mail), discussion groups (called newsgroups or bulletin boards, where users can post messages and look for responses on a system called Usenet), on-line conversations (called chats), adventure and role-playing games, information retrieval, and electronic commerce (e-commerce).

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in computing, two or more computers connected for the purpose of routing, managing, and storing rapidly changing data. A local area network (LAN), which is restricted by distances of up to one mile, and a metropolitan area network (MAN), which is restricted to distances of up to 60 miles, connect personal computers and workstations (each called a node) over dedicated, private communications links. A wide area network (WAN) connects large numbers of nodes over long-distance communications links, such as common carrier telephone lines, over distances ranging from that between major metropolitan centers to that between continents. An internet is a connection between networks. The Internet is a WAN that connects thousands of disparate networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, providing global communication between nodes on government, educational, and industrial networks. Networks allow for resource sharing (e.g., multiple computers sharing one printer), data sharing, and communication or data exchange (e.g., electronic mail).

Answer 3

what do you mean where you are right now

Answer 4

It is a place you can score 2 points for answering a "question."

Answer 5

INTER means to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb

NET means an entrapping device or situation

so INTERNET  means to deposit a body into an entrapping device

Answer 6

Believe it or not--it's an accident of sorts!  Technically its the system (based on phone lines and now, radio) by which individual computers can communicate with each other by connecting to central routing servers.

It started in the 70s with early efforts by Department of Defense researchers (the agency is called DARPA) experimenting with linking remote computers for file sharing and communication.  By the early 80s, you also saw the advent of PC's powerful enough to also communicate and send enough information to each other to be worthwhile.  Over time, the utitlity of these features became obvious, and more and more software and hardware was developed to make it easier to do.

The advent (around 1990 of graphic interfaces was a big step forward--using a mouse to "point and click" became common--and the first web browsers began to be available.  If you want to put a date on the beginning of the Internet, that would be 1995 with the introduction of "Windows 95."  But almost no one anticipated the emergence of the intense "cyberspace" community, the extent to which retailing, etc, would become central to life and business.

In a sense, then, the Internet wasn't "invented"--it evolved out of th einteraction of technology and users--what engineers call a "synergistic" effect.  That is, the result--the Internet--is much more than could have been predicted from looking at the individual parts as they were developed and marketed.

Technically, the key technologies involved are the microprosser (devloped by Robert Noyce around 1970 (the start if Intel Corporation), fiberoptic phone lines, and the advent of "networking servers," combined with the evolution of high-powered operating systems (Mac and Microsoft) culminating in the development of web browsers and complex softwar packages like Windows.

Answer 7

well its a means of communicating information over geographic regions...but for the guy above me its for p**n

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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.

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

Answer 10

well your on it right now!!!!

Answer 11

A place used for p**n

Answer 12

a place for killing time and soucing info. you are right now!

Answer 13

Don't know ......Gee, wait a minute, what's that thing you're on now !? Maybe, just maybe YOU ANSWERED YOUY OWN QUESTION. Or go ask Al Gore.

Answer 14

A place for p**n!

Answer 15

What you are on right now.