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What is the Internet?

The Internet is a global network of millions of computers connected together that allows continuous communication across the globe.


'Net' is short for 'Internet'.
'WWW' is short for 'World Wide Web'.


The Internet is a global network of smaller computer networks with a common communication protocol (TCP/IP) and naming system (IP), allowing any two of the millions of computers connected to it, to connect to each other. The Internet evolved from the ARPAnet of the late 60s, which was devised by the US military in order to ensure instant, secure communications between military bases, even if nuclear bombs were dropped.

Brief history

The Internet evolved from a 1960s US Defense Department experiment in computer networking called ARPAnet. Its goal was to allow different kinds of computers to interconnect so that researchers could share data. ...click here to read more about the History .


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