What is the Internet?

Internet is a short form of the technical term internetwork, the result of interconnecting computer networks with special gateways or routers. Historically the word has been used, uncapitalized, as a verb and adjective since 1883 to refer to interconnected motions. It was also used from 1974 before the Internet, uncapitalized, as a verb meaning to connect together, especially for networks.The Internet is also often referred to as the Net.

Terminology
History
Technology
General structure
Modern uses
Services
World Wide Web
Communication
Access
Users
Social impact
Censorship
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