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Definition:

The Internet is millions of computers around the world connected to each other.

Explanation:

When you're on the Internet, your computer is connected to others by networks of telephone wire, cable and satellite. The Web, e-mail, chat, and newsgroups are things you can do on the Internet.

Sentence:

"Is this computer on the Internet?"

 

 

Find out More!

• Go directly to "Internet" in the TechEncyclopedia; read a synopsis of the history of this "network of networks" since it was first developed for military purposes by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960's.
  
  
• Look it up yourself in the FOLDOC dictionary.

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