What is internet

The Internet is the biggest world-wide communication network of computers. Internet has millions of smaller domestic, academic, business,and government networks, which together carry many different kinds of information. The term is sometimes abbreviated as "the net". The World Wide Web is one of its biggest services. It is used by a few billion people all over the world.

The Internet was developed in the United States by the "United States Advanced Research Projects Agency" (DARPA). Internet was first connected in October, 1969,and was called ARPANET. The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1990 by a British (UK) scientist named Tim Berners-Lee.

Today, people can pay money to access the Internet from internet service providers. Some services on the Internet cost nothing to use. Sometimes people who offer these free services use advertising to make money from them. Censorship and freedom of speech on the Internet can be controversial.