The Internet

Research and development projects in 1980s sponsored by NSF and DOD

Research principally done in universities led to Arpanet, Darpanet, Csnet, and eventually ... Internet

Internet has now become an international network, but that is NOT the source of its name

"Internet" is really a term for "Interconnected Network of Networks"

"The NET" is a colloquialism for the Internet

Internet is now massive world-wide network of computers

Internet is gaining millions of new users per month

These join existing Internet users now approximating 400 million