ACTUALLY, a ****LOT**** of people today don't know what the internet or the cloud are. MOST of them THINK they do!

The internet is a collection of computers networked together via Ethernet and compatible protocols. It is EXACTLY like the first remote access systems started, except that most resources can be accessed through various standards as if they were local.

The WWW is a collection of sites on the internet running HTTP compatible protocols.

The user@domain is most often used by a collection of users that have access to the standard email routines, for an email address, and is not necessarily on the internet, though most are.

And "the cloud" is REALLY, historically, just a network!!!!! It is used today to imply some service provided over the internet.

But YEAH, you may talk to a kid, or even an adult today, and they may point to their browser, or their email and say that is the internet. It has NOTHING to do with the internet! You can do the email locally, and the http locally, and they both came after the internet. They are simply network compatible apps to provide services OVER networks, such as the internet.

BTW the internet has been around for a long time. It was even open to the average American before 1994. Although GORE did ****NOT**** invent the internet, apparently he IS one of the ones that supported opening it up. I wonder why they didn't do it earlier though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore...ion_technology

Arpanet WAS, and IS, for all intents and purposes, the internet. It was created under DARPA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

Computer networking, AKA "THE INTERNET!" The ACTUAL technology was CORPORATE, and AT&T apparently gets the credit for THAT. DARPA just got it connected nationally to the US trunk lines, and made it national.

Steve

Great indeed!!