Summary INTERNET AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES

2 INTERNET The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The Internet was originally developed as a military project in the United States, but it was later opened to the public in the 1980s. Since then, it has grown to become one of