Additional Information: How did the Internet start? What are protocols?
What is the Internet? This is harder to define than one might think. The simplest definition might be that the Internet is a network. More precisely, it is a network of networks. So what is a network? Two or more computers connected together to communicate and share resources. The resources may be a printer on another machine, or a software program like a word processor. But most importantly, at least for the World Wide Web and other common Internet services, a network allows the sharing of files (where each computer stores its information). File sharing is significant because it allows a person on one computer to access information stored on another. The two computers may be as close as the same room, or in opposite corners of the world, yet the information in the remote files may be available nearly instantly. This technological development in communications is revolutionizing the flow of information. The Internet is a network of smaller networks that spans the globe. You can share d
