what is an internet?

[fagol]

im in grade 11 and all my pals say they go on internet, i tried looking at it on google but nothing told me an answer. when i asked the fellas in my class they laughed. is internet a band or a joke or something?

[Fred]

The Internet is the indoor version of the outernet. It is more convenient, generally faster, and much more comfortable, especially in bad weather. It has some disadvantages, for example from the outer net you see the crash coming in plenty of time and get the chance to jump of before it destroys anything.

[Phantomname509]

Wow! You're in the 11th and don't know what the internet is? That is hard to believe. Just go on google.com and type in keywords. You will be surprised at what you will find. You can find about anything you want on the internet. Just go to google.com and type in dogs.

[Coolguy5921]

The internet is what you're using right now! It's where you visit all your favorite websites and do a bunch of other stuff... like games, look at videos, listen to music, etc.

[Lucas Harmon]

i once tried to use the internet. it for some reason led to a question on yahoo answers about the internet. i'm still trying to figure out how i interneted, but im pretty sure i need to delete system32

[Abdullah]

see the link for more details of Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

[Mary]

I think that this is a good question, and deserves a serious answer. I teach a class for people who do not understand the Internet, and I explain it this way.

Think of the Internet as an inland located on earth, it is it's own country. This island is filled with books videos, games, newspapers, colleges, and general knowledge, and is available to anyone who can access it. Now imagine that there are numerous bridges coming from all over the world to this island. These bridges are called internet browsers. Some bridges are very big, such as Google or Yahoo, and lots of traffic can get to the island fast. Some bridges are small, and only allow a small amount of traffic so that bridge is slower to take. The traffic that uses the bridges are telephone/wireless connections. Traffic from all bridges can get anything that is on the island (internet), and you can read it, watch it, play it, put your own information on it and so forth.

You can use any bridge to ask the internet a question, and you will get answers. This will help you with school work. For instance, say you needed to know how many feet in a mile. You could go to google.com or yahoo.com and type in that question. You are using your telephone/wireless connection, which crosses the bridge, gets the answer from the island, and sends it back to you - there are 5280 feet in a mile.

I hope that this helps you.

Mary Carmichael