Internet

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• The world-wide collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.^[1]

• A worldwide computer network containing a broad array of services and information available to any individual with a PC and the paid connection.^[2]

• The interconnecting global public network made by connecting smaller shared public networks. The most well-known Internet is the Internet, the worldwide network of networks which use the TCP/IP protocol to facilitate information exchange.^[3]

See also

• Internet
• Intranet
• Extranet

Footnotes

1. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
2. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.
3. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.