the.com/internet
a planet-spanning library, casino, and shouting match plugged into your pocket.
means The global network of interconnected computer networks that lets devices everywhere exchange data, carrying the web, email, video, and nearly everything else digital.
from A blend of "inter-" (Latin for "between, among") and "network," shortened from "internetwork" — literally a network of networks. The term grew out of 1970s research on linking separate computer networks together; the underlying protocol work used "internetworking" to describe stitching distinct systems into one, and the clipped form "internet" stuck, eventually graduating to a capital-I proper noun for the one that swallowed the world.
- undersea backbone
- Over 95% of traffic crosses ocean-floor cables, not satellites.
- first message
- The first transmission crashed after two letters: LO.
- daily weight
- All data combined weighs roughly a strawberry.
- dark majority
- Most of it is unindexed, hidden from search engines.
- cat fuel
- It runs on roughly the power of a small country.
arpanet — first packet-switched network, launched 1969 by us department of defense
world wide web — invented by tim berners-lee at cern in 1989, made the internet accessible to the public