What Is The Internet?

The term Internet is one of those terms that you know when you see it but hard to define. If you ask the question to 100 person, maybe you can get 100 answers. User can play games, watch movie, chatting with freinds, deals business and make money with internet. www.encyclopedia.com defines the internet as international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises (called gateways or service providers) that enabl individuals to access the internet.
In 1980, the internet was merely a research project, but by 1985 it was becoming a viable network system. Experimental TCP/IP software was available for several brands of computers. a handful of universities and research labs had copies of the TCP/IP software, and were using it every day. The internet reached researchers at a dozen academic and industrial research labs.