Practical TCP/IP and Ethernet Networking for Industry

11

The Internet

Objectives

When you have completed study of this chapter you should be able to:

• Describe briefly the origins of the Internet

• Describe the various organizations associated with the Internet

• Describe the World Wide Web and the associated tools used with it

11.1 The Internet and internet

Finally, a brief explanation of the words ‘Internet and internet’.

When referred to in lowercase, as ‘internet’, this alludes to a physical collection of

packet switching networks interconnected by gateways along with protocols that enable

the system to exist as a virtual network to exist.

If the word is used as ‘Internet’, using