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Computer Networks: Internet, A System Architecture That Has Revolutionized

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that was developed in the 1970s and emerged for public use in the early 1990s. By 2020, over half of the world's population had access to the Internet. It provides capabilities for almost any purpose involving information sharing and is accessible to anyone who connects to its networks. The Internet supports various forms of communication like social media, email, chat rooms, and audio/video calls. It also allows people to collaborate remotely and access digital information, including the World Wide Web. Many businesses now conduct most of their sales and services over the Internet.

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Computer Networks: Internet, A System Architecture That Has Revolutionized

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that was developed in the 1970s and emerged for public use in the early 1990s. By 2020, over half of the world's population had access to the Internet. It provides capabilities for almost any purpose involving information sharing and is accessible to anyone who connects to its networks. The Internet supports various forms of communication like social media, email, chat rooms, and audio/video calls. It also allows people to collaborate remotely and access digital information, including the World Wide Web. Many businesses now conduct most of their sales and services over the Internet.

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Internet, a system architecture that has revolutionized

communications and methods of commerce by allowing


various computer networks around the world to interconnect.
Sometimes referred to as a “network of networks,” the Internet
emerged in the United States in the 1970s but did not become visible
to the general public until the early 1990s. By 2020, approximately 4.5
billion people, or more than half of the world’s population, were
estimated to have access to the Internet.
The Internet provides a capability so powerful and general that it can
be used for almost any purpose that depends on information, and it is
accessible by every individual who connects to one of
its constituent networks. It supports human communication via social
media, electronic mail (e-mail), “chat rooms,” newsgroups, and audio
and video transmission and allows people to work collaboratively at
many different locations. It supports access to digital information by
many applications, including the World Wide Web. The Internet has
proved to be a spawning ground for a large and growing number of “e-
businesses” (including subsidiaries of traditional “brick-and-mortar”
companies) that carry out most of their sales and services over the
Internet. (See electronic commerce.)

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