The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that link devices worldwide. All the devices have an address and can be connected to any other device with back-up links that are routed around any of the links that are broken.
The data is cut up in packets and with the addition of encryption a resilient/secure communication link is offered.
Devices called servers store data that devices called clients access. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as presentation of the data using WWW browsers, email, telephony and file sharing.
The Internet has no single centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies. Globally unified name spaces are essential for maintaining the global reach of the Internet. This role of ICANN distinguishes it as perhaps the only central coordinating body for the global Internet. ICANN is governed by an international board of directors drawn from across the Internet technical, business, academic, and other non-commercial communities.
The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.
In the 1960s the US government commissioned to build robust, fault-tolerant communication with computer networks to secure against a devastating nuclear attack. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially interconnected academic and military networks in the 1980s.
Private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation as generations of personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network.
Email was born in 1971 when a computer engineer began using the @ symbol to designate which computer a message should go to.
English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. WWW is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://www.example.com/) and are displayed by applications called web browsers.
The World Wide Web has been central to the development of the Information Age and is the primary tool billions of people use to interact on the Internet. Soon, everyone with an internet access was able to publish pages accessible by everyone else. As the number of pages increased, search engines were developed to index them.
Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerged in the 1980s offering services and technologies that in the next 20 years influenced virtually every aspect of modern life. Telephony, radio, television, paper mail and newspapers were reshaped, redefined, or even bypassed by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephony, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, and video streaming websites. Soon, everyone with an internet access was able to access all the information to all the knowledge they searched for. This transparency of information and facts greatly helped to uncover corruption.
Since 2000, the Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, social networking and online banking and shopping. The Internet continues to grow, driven by ever greater amounts of online information and knowledge, commerce, entertainment and social networking. Along with the taming of fire, speaking, writing, and mass media, the internet starts a new chapter in the evolution of humans.
Everyone having internet access, whether paid from home or free from public access points has great powers. They can publish and broadcast their own magazine, radio or TV station with their mobile phones using free platforms such as blogs, podcasts, YouTube and other streaming channels accessible by everyone world wide and at any time. They can advertise their content on social network platforms. They can also share posts they consider worthy to be shared.
Like posts of cute cats that end up going viral.
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