What exactly IS THE INTERNET?

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14 years ago

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the rebel reviewer 14 years ago

hi i believe the INTERNET to be the high speed highway to knowledge and understanding. Where you research any subject at push of a button.
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- AlanGNW 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by the rebel reviewer
  
  hi i believe the INTERNET to be the high speed highway to knowledge and understanding. Where you research any subject at push of a button.
  
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garyadams281

14 years ago

Whoa! For me Internet is my source of unlimited information and money. Internet has been part of my life.

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seasoned

14 years ago

The internet is merely a network. It is differentiated from every other network in that each system somehow has a path to a common connection. All the major credit card processors, banks, and gateways are on that network, so moving money is easy. Each entity owns/maintains its part. BTW not all connections use the same path. That is why it is called a NETwork.

BTW only about 3 billion(It is less than 4244635648, but I never bothered to figure the actual number.) entities can currently be reaced directly on the internet through IPs ONLY.

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Vogin

14 years ago

Internet is a network composed of smaller networks. It begins & ends nowhere, it has no owner. It is the last, 100% free mass medium in the world.

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waitstate 14 years ago

I would debate the 100% free part.
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CDarklock

14 years ago

What exactly is the world?

Nobody runs or controls the world per se.

The world does not have an owner/maintainer.

Yet billions of billions of people are connected through...THE WORLD

How can so much information, and billions of dollars just pass magically from one place to another...through NOTHING.

So if anyone has any ideas...

What exactly is THE WORLD?

WTF

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healthconverter 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

What exactly is the world?

Nobody runs or controls the world per se.

Disagreed. The world is controlled by many beaurocracies, governments, corporations, etc. They are all controlled by one person or a handful of people. And they are all controlled by the almighty dollar/Euro/Yen/Pound/Baht. Which really has no intrinsic value, but is only valued by what it represents. The world is certainly controlled. It is bought and sold acre by acre on the open market. Whether this is a good or bad thing, I'll leave that to the moralists and philosophers.

To answer the original question, the internet is tubes that fascinate us all. The geniuses that manipulate these wires that are an 1/8 inch thick to transmit information are the real heroes in the story. Anyone can create a website, but very few people can create something of value from wires. In short, the internet is electronic awesomeness.
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johnei

14 years ago

This is very comman question we use internet in daily life but never come to what is internet exactly ? From my point of view it is information and communication source which is connect through Hyper text transport protocol.

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AlanGNW

14 years ago

You'll find the answer here - Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - it's not rocket science.

...and I totally agree it's 99% full of garbage!

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AlanGNW

14 years ago

I see the point you're trying to make Alexa... But....

Newsgroups full of porn?

Spam email?

I'll stick to the 99%

An nteresting "fact" I heard a few years back... The claim was that if you took the traffic of one day across the entire internet the amount of data transferred is more than the communications passed (including the written word, verbal communication, telephone, TV etc) through the entire history of the human race - say pre 1970.

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by AlanSLV

I'll stick to the 99%

A popular misconception. The Internet is so vast it is beyond most people's comprehension. To say it's 99% crap demonstrates naiveté, even you, Alexa.

To give an idea about the true size of the Internet, consider this. Google currently has approximately 50 billion web pages in their index. Those 50E9 pages do not even approach 5% of what is available on the 'Net. Got that?

Back in 2005 Google CEO Eric Schmidt estimated the Internet at 5 million terabytes, of which, at that time, Google had indexed about 170 terabytes. The Internet's 2005 size would take 300 years to index. BTW, in 2005 Google's index was about 25 billion web pages...

What so many don't realize is that search engines cannot and do not index databases and many other repositories, like universities and any resource that dynamically presents data. You can build a lucrative career specializing in the "deep Internet". Companies like LexisNexis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia already make a fortune charging for making access easy.

A very simple example. A while ago I was searching for public domain cookbooks. Books not in the Gutenberg Project. Following links away from Gutenberg I found myself at a university site, West Virginia, I think. Following more links I ended up in a library of scanned books from the 18th and 19th centuries. Lots of cookbooks.

Lots of everything. Universities, of course, are all about information and have amazing stuff online that is not in any search engine. Plus links to other universities which link to others.... Artwork, history, technology, science. Just at universities. And they are just a start. Many companies have public access databases too. Don't forget FTP servers... On and on...

Once you break out of the "Web is the Internet" mindset, the human universe opens up.

EDIT: I just remembered a site I bookmarked ages ago. I stumbled on it looking for more online books. It gives a taste of what's out there, a small taste, but tantalizing...
http://www.collegedegree.com/library...ound_the_world

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

The Internet is so vast it is beyond most people's comprehension. To say it's 99% crap demonstrates naiveté, even you, Alexa.

Not really - 99% of everything is crap.

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Not really - 99% of everything is crap.

We see in others and in the world what we see in ourselves. Some default to optimism some default to disdain. We create our own reality.

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MissTerraK

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

We see in others and in the world what we see in ourselves. Some default to optimism some default to disdain. We create our own reality.

And to add to that...

Our own perception is our own reality.

Terra

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

And to add to that...

Our own perception is our own reality.

Terra

I think I said that when I said we create our own reality. A nice thing about perception is that it is based upon accumulated filters and those filters can be changed. We not only create our own reality, we can change it.

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MissTerraK

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

I think I said that when I said we create our own reality. A nice thing about perception is that it is based upon accumulated filters and those filters can be changed. We not only create our own reality, we can change it.

I do believe I see that now, LOL!

I guess it has to do with my perception of the words spoken.

Seriously though, I agree with you regarding the filters. I refer to those filters as "mindsets" also.

These filters or mindsets are built up in us by our experiences in life and our feelings/thoughts toward them. They can just as easily be torn down and reconstructed differently not only through experiences but by the power of our continued learning!

Great post!

Terra

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Fernando Veloso

14 years ago

Ahhh the internetzzzz...

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AlanGNW

14 years ago

Alexa - I think we are singing off the same hymn sheet here...

Amuses me that the OP is an 'Successful Internet Marketer' who;

a) Has to ask the question in the first place
b) Posts it here rather than us Google or Wikipedia to answer it

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AlanGNW

14 years ago

99% is meant as an illustrative - non-researched number. (and intended to carry some humour which appears to have been lost somewhere)

Take this thread for instance a question asked by someone who should clearly know better, should have just Googled the question - makes it kind of pointless doesn't it

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Ah for crying out loud...didn't you hear?

THE INTERNET IS A BUNCH OF TUBES!!!

YouTube - Series of Tubes

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Ah for crying out loud...didn't you hear?

THE INTERNET IS A BUNCH OF TUBES!!!

YouTube - Series of Tubes

MAN! Talk about the 99%! I guess the tubes reference is from the pnuematic tubes... Pneumatic tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is about 174 years old, but the only one that makes sense. The idea is right, but the way it is expressed makes me feel this is someone from the 1940s with only a basic understanding of networks.

Steve

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

MAN! Talk about the 99%! I guess the tubes reference is from the pnuematic tubes... Pneumatic tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is about 174 years old, but the only one that makes sense. The idea is right, but the way it is expressed makes me feel this is someone from the 1940s with only a basic understanding of networks.

Steve

The tubes reference comes from the politician who was in charge of regulating the Internet. The quote went viral and is now part of the language. Wags post is the original, here's the Wiki entry with a transcript.

Series of tubes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

The tubes reference comes from the politician who was in charge of regulating the Internet. The quote went viral and is now part of the language. Wags post is the original, here's the Wiki entry with a transcript.

Series of tubes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, the only actual method of using tubes to convey information, that I know of anyway, is pnuematic. So I stand by my comparison. I guess you COULD talk about PIPES for water/gas, which is equivalent, but another step away.

Steve

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Well, the only actual method of using tubes to convey information, that I know of anyway, is pnuematic. So I stand by my comparison. I guess you COULD talk about PIPES for water/gas, which is equivalent, but another step away.

Steve

It's a metaphor, Steve. Literalism does not apply.

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

It's a metaphor, Steve. Literalism does not apply.

I know, sheesh. I was just saying it was closER to being literal.

HEY, you could say the internet is like a cucumber, you can only get so many slices before you have to go back to the grocery store. But HEY, you can be a BIT more precise.

Steve

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Adam Roy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

I know, sheesh. I was just saying it was closER to being literal.

HEY, you could say the internet is like a cucumber, you can only get so many slices before you have to go back to the grocery store. But HEY, you can be a BIT more precise.

Steve

Interesting analogy.

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soependi 14 years ago

internet is information
internet is money
internet is porn

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DotComBum

14 years ago

Internet is about accessing each other computer/server which are connected to each other.

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AlanGNW 14 years ago

Originally Posted by DotComBum

Internet is about accessing each other computer/server which are connected to each other.

Wow - such words of wisdom - thank you! I guess you didn't read any of the other posts before responding with this puerile and simplistic answer?
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ActionToCash

14 years ago

The Internet is a mega library on steroids - at least that's how I see it. Maybe it's because I am spend so much time at my local library while I'm creating information products - It's a nice way to be around others if you get bored working from home all the time...

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Kurt

14 years ago

I think we should combine the wisdom of three politicians to define the Internet for the OP:

The Internets are a series of tubes invented by Al Gore.