Internet

Internet is a global interconnection of government, academic, public and private networks based on network technology of Internet Protocol Suite. It is the successor of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), DARPA developed by the Board of the Ministry of Defense. The Internet is the communications backbone on which the World Wide Web (WWW). In the “Internet” is usually written with a capital ‘m’ as first name, for historical reasons and different from other general Internetworks.

Participants use the Internet for a variety of methods to several documented and often standardized, protocols compatible with the Internet Protocol Suite and addressing system (IP addresses), managed by the Internet Assigned numbers Authority and address registries. Service providers and large enterprises to exchange information about the accessibility of their address spaces across the border Gateway Protocol (BGP), creating a global network of redundant routes of transmission.