Internet and it's Terminology
INTERNET This article is about the worldwide computer network. For other uses, see Internet (disambiguation) . Not to be confused with the World Wide Web The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail , telephony , and file sharing . The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United State...