Second Year Digital - Web Site Design
What is the web?
The Internet (also known simply as the Net ) is the worldwide, publicly accessible system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail , online chat , file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web .
Briefly, the Internet can be understood as " a network of networks ".
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
The internet What was it's original purpose?
The Internet's original purpose was to help professors and researchers share information regardless of location. It has since grown to include people, organizations, and companies all over the planet. Now text, images, programs and even video can be transfered over the net to households, businesses and companies everywhere.