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Internet
The Internet, or basically the Net, is
the publicly available worldwide system of interconnected computer networks
that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet
Protocol (IP). It is made up of thousands of smaller commercial, academic,
domestic, and government networks. It carries various information and
services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked
Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. |
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