The Internet is a publicly accessible global information system consisting of

interconnected computer networks. This system transmits information in a packet-

switching fashion based on a standardized internet protocol (IP protocol). This
system includes thousands of smaller computer networks of businesses, research
institutes, universities, individual users and governments around the globe, linked
by a variety of network technologies. electronic, wireless, and optical networks.
The Internet carries a wide range of information resources and services, such as the
World Wide Web (WWW) linked hypertext documents and applications, and
electronic mail. electronic, telephony and file sharing.
The main precursor network, ARPANET, initially served as the backbone to
connect regional academic and military networks in the 1970s. Funding of the
National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as
private financing of other commercial extensions, leading to worldwide
involvement in the development of new network technologies and the merger of
many networks. The interconnection of business and commercial networks in the
early 1990s marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet, and
generated exponential growth as generations of computers personal, personal and
mobile connected to the network.
With such open connectivity, the Internet has become the largest network in the
world, appearing in all fields of commerce, politics, military, research, education,
culture, society. Since then, services on the Internet are constantly developing,
creating a new era for mankind: the era of e-commerce on the Internet.