Internet

The Internet is a vast global network that connects billions of computers around the world, enabling users to communicate and share information through a variety of network protocols, such as TCP/IP.

Originating in the 1960s as a military research project in the United States under the name ARPANET, the Internet has grown over the decades to become the global computer network we know today.

The Internet differs from the Web, which is one of the services offered through the Internet: the Web uses the HTTP protocol to transmit data and allows access to interconnected Web pages via links, but it is only one of many applications that run on the Internet, along with email, FTP, VOIP and many others.