What Is Internet

The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data using the standard Internet ...
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a worldwide network of computers that allows the "sharing" or "networking" of information at remote sites from other academic institutions, research institutes, private companies, government agencies, and individuals.
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The globally interconnected collection of IP protocol based networks.
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The Internet is the largest Internet in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks (eg ARPAnet, NSFNet, MILNET), mid-level networks, and stub networks. These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, . ...
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An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol.
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The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net,” is a worldwide system of computer networks that allows users to send and receive information from other computers.
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1. A collection of approximately 60,000 independent, interconnected networks that se the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from ARPANet of the '60s and early '70s. ...
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The collection of networks that communicate via TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) throughout the world. Also called the Net.
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A global network of computers that communicate through phone and satellites. The Internet has services such as the World Wide Web and e-mail.
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A worldwide network of computers that can be accessed via the campus computer network. The Internet allows local computer users to find and use information resources on computers of other academic institutions, research institutes, private companies and government agencies.
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The worldwide network of computers communicating via an agreed upon set of Internet protocol. Odds are that if you are reading this document, you are probably on the Internet right now (just in case you didn't know).
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A vast, globe-spanning network of networks. The networks communicate with each other based on certain protocols, such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP). Every time you tap into the Internet, your own computer becomes an extension of those networks.
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The largest global network connecting millions of computers. It is strictly based on TCP/IP protocol for communication between host and server.
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Lower case i Any time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state.
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lobal, decentralized communications network connecting millions of computers, providing exchange of data, news and opinions. (International Standards Organization)
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An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every university, government, and research facility in the world. Also included are many commercial sites. It started with four interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet.
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The Internet; successor to DARPA-NET. Worldwide internetwork based on the TCP/IP protocol.
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A large global network comprised of thousands of smaller networks. The World Wide Web is one element of the Internet.
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What became the Internet was originally developed as ARPANET by the US Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), discontinued in 1990 to give way to computers, hierarchically nested into an international telecommunications systetext links. ...
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A global "network of networks" used to communicate electronically that is linked by a common set of protocols. These protocols allow computers from one network to communicate with a computer on another network.
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A set of interconnected networks which allow computers in different locations to exchange information. The Internet includes services such as the World Wide Web, electronic mail, file transfer (FTP), chat and remote access to networks and computers.
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The World Wide Web, which is a giant network of computers.
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An electronic network providing access to millions of resources worldwide. University Libraries provide access to many periodical indexes through the Internet. Internet access is available on all floors of the Libraries.
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A group of interconnected worldwide computers using an agreed on set of standards and protocols to request information from and send information to each other.
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The international collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and share a common addressing scheme, the Internet Protocol (IP).
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a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
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