To begin, I will state the definition of Internet as defined by the Federal Networking Council:
"Internet" refers to the global information system that -- (i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons; (ii) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure.
That doesn't sound like the Internet you know, because the Internet you know is filled with pictures,videos, sounds and software and all kinds of other stuff that you know is on the Internet or has something to do with it.
The Internet you know is about being able to go to Facebook to connect with people you know or to log on to Twitter and Tweet some famous person as you would with a text message.
The Internet you know is that thing which allows you to listen to music on Spotify or to watch movies on Netflix.
The Internet you know is that thing which allows you to access so much information which you otherwise would not have had and it is that thing which allows you to be in contact with so many people.
They are just millions of people who daily communicate via the Internet. What they say ranges from the most criminal content to the most sanest content.
The Internet is like a virtual universe where you can have one identiy or more than one and all of them are as real as you want them to be and from that basis, you can say whatever it is that you want to say. You almost find more liberty online than you do outside of it to a certain degree because you can be more online and say more online than you probably are able to or feel when you are offline.
And it's not just people who are communicating on the web. Computers do it too.
As a matter of fact, the internet started with the purpose of enabling computers to exchange information to and fro but the the man who really foresaw what could be done with this was J.C.R Licklider of MIT who described how he foresaw it at as a "Galactic Network." He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.
Doesn't that sound a lot like what happens today?
The reason for computer networks, advertising online, marketing online, newspapers online, books online, social interaction online and the internet itself is the need and the urge to be in communication.
We are living in a world where communication is the base of everything that happens in it and even computers who don't think on their own unless programmed to, do it also and if it were not for the existence of computers, the internet would not exist and the web would not exist and all the social networks and other media which exists online would not exist either.
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