The world we live in today is extremely technologically advanced. With the modern desktop came the internet. The internet changed the world forever in good and bad ways but there’s no doubt the pros outweigh the cons. People use the internet all over the world some every day some every minute. The internet is by far the greatest invention in the world because without the internet the world would be drastically different. Because of this innovation people thousands of miles away can see each other as if in the same room conversing, some people control their businesses with the internet, also people can connect to the World Wide Web and access any information they desire practically from anywhere in the world.
The Internet is not synonymous with World Wide Web. The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email. Originally in 1969 the Internet was developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a program titled the Resource Sharing Computer Networks. It was created so that military sites could maintain communication around the world in the event of a nuclear attack. Then when the cold war ended the Internet was kept around for basically the same reason, it was used as a long distance communications tool. Much like a