Internet

The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fibre-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

The Internet carries a vast collection of information resources and services, most remarkably, the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web and the public services to support electronic mail, in addition to popular services such as online chat, file transfer, file sharing, online gaming, and Voice over Internet Protocol which is person-to-person communication via voice and video, this can be done by using a piece of technology called a web cam which is connected to your computer which is connected to the internet and the images and sounds that it captures are streamed to another person’s computer. This is very beneficial for large, busy companies as they can sit and have a meeting from the office instead of have to travel to meet, this is also better for the economy as it is reducing the amount of travelling needed. Families who live in separate countries can also keep in touch so the Voice over Internet Protocol is an extremely beneficial invention.

The origins of the Internet stretch back to the 1960s when the US funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. Backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned the worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network by the mid 1990s, this resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in every aspect of modern human life. By 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.