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What is Internet

Nowadays to imagine the world without the internet is impossible but this was not the case almost 5 decades back.If you are like me you must be spending 18 hours a day on the internet.We use the internet in so many ways like browsing, watching a youtube video, sending email, downloading different file shared by users, but the question is What is internet?
If you know the answer you are probably among the 5% of the people. for the ordinary common people, it is not necessary to know the technology if he is using that. people use so many things in life that he does not know who invented and what’s the technology involved in it. for example ballpoint pen bathroom flush etc. if you are still interested this article will give you a glimpse of what the internet is?.
Internet: To keep it simple internet is the physical infrastructure that connects two or more different computer. It may be connected through fiber optics, wireless network or satellite network.Today the Internet is a public, cooperative and self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Using the Web, we have access to billions of pages of information. Web browsing is done with a Web browser, the most popular of which are Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Now if we understand what is the internet the second question comes to our mind who created this physical network? who control the internet? To know the answer read my second article How we are connected to the internet?
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