If someone stopped you on the street and asked you to define the term Internet, with a capital I, what would you say? Chances are you visualize the Internet based on the part you interact with: your own computer screen.The Internet that brings a wealth of information to your screen is vast.

It’s made of hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks in more than 100 countries using large computers, called servers, to interconnect them. A network is a grouping of  interrelated computers, such as those for commercial, academic, and business entities.Originally developed as a tool for the U.S. military, the Internet has become a tool for communication and research that businesses, governments, and individuals nowdepend on.

A term closely related to Internet, but not synonymous, is the term World Wide Web. Figuratively speaking, it’s a web of documents. The World Wide Web connects documents by the use of web-page links called hypertext markup links.