The Internet Is Just A Set Of Rules?

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When people say "the internet"what it is not understood well commonly is the meaning of the word.

The internet can be understood in a number of different ways.

Firstly the internet (note the small "i") means:

• A system connecting computers around the world using TCP/IP. Which stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of rules for transmitting and receiving digital data.

• The internet consists primarily of the collection of billions of interconnected webpages that are transferred using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and are collectively known as the World Wide Web.

• The internet also uses FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to transfer files, and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to transfer e-mail.

Now here is what is understood by the word Internet (note the capital I)

• The Internet is the largest internet (with a small "i") in the world.

• It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks.

• These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil)

• Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed mostly via command line interfaces such as telnet and FTP.

• While the web (HTML and HTTP) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other protocols in use, supporting applications such as electronic mail, chat, remote login, and file transfer, MSN Messenger is a common example.

Remeber The World Wide Web (www.) is one of the services accessible via the Internet, along with many others including e-mail, Usenet, file sharing and others

So remeber, Iam reffering to The Internet

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