World Wide Web

The Internet is a world wide network of interconnected educational, governmental, and business computers. Anyone with a personal computer and a modem can communicate across the Internet. Your computer does this by sending data, via an electronic Internet Protocol (IP) packet, to a particular destination on the Internet. Communications software "reads" the addresses and forward the packets. Since the mid-1980s, the Internet has grown from a thousand or so networks to tens of thousands, and is available to millions of people around the globe. The links below will provide both historical and up-to-date information about the Net.