| Internet sources differ in the kinds of information | | | | allows organic growth of the network, as well as the |
| that are important for retrieval, and the model for | | | | non-proprietary open nature of the Internet |
| each type of source reflects the information needed | | | | protocols, which encourages vendor inter operability |
| to retrieve that source. The Internet is a worldwide, | | | | and prevents any one company from exerting too |
| publicly accessible network of interconnected | | | | much control over the network. Aside from the |
| computer networks that transmit data by packet | | | | complex physical connections that make up its |
| switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). | | | | infrastructure, the Internet is facilitated by |
| The Internet is a collection of inter connected | | | | multi-lateral commercial contracts, it has been |
| computer networks, linked by copper wires, | | | | determined that the Internet IP routing structure and |
| fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc. | | | | hypertext links of the World Wide Web are |
| Web | | | | examples of scale-free networks. In network |
| The World Wide Web is merely a service accessible | | | | diagrams, the Internet is often represented by a |
| via the Internet, along with many other services | | | | cloud symbol, into and out of which network |
| including e-mail, file sharing, and others described | | | | communications can pass. Because the Internet is a |
| below. The Internet consists of the computers and | | | | distributed network comprising many voluntarily |
| networks that can handle Internet Protocol data | | | | interconnected networks, the Internet has no |
| packets. Over the course of the decade, the | | | | governing body. The main language for |
| Internet successfully accommodated the majority of | | | | communication on the Internet is English. The |
| previously existing public computer networks. During | | | | Internet's technologies have developed enough in |
| the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew | | | | recent years that good facilities are available for |
| by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive | | | | development and communication in most widely used |
| growth in 1996 and 1997. This growth is often | | | | languages. |
| attributed to the lack of central administration, which | | | | |