Why is the internet a large network?

Answer 1

This is actually a great question. Everyone has a Local Area Network (LAN). This could be as small as one computer plugged into a router in your house to as large as an office building. There is then a Wide Area Network (WAN) which connects several LANs together via a router. The WANs are then connected to each other via more routers. That is what an ISP is, a collection of routers with routes to the various networks all across the internet. All these interconnects form a web, hence the name the World Wide Web. *trivia* The Internet and the World Wide Web are actually two separate entities. The World Wide Web sits on top of the internet. (Internet is physical/link layer, WWW is protocol/application layer)

Answer 2

That is precisely what it is. The early networks (BBS systems, Milnet, DARPANET, college universities computer networks, etc) were not interconnected. The base concept of the internet was connecting these various networks. Essentially the internet is one giant network, but individual nodes on that network may be gateways for other networks that are not directly on the internet.

Answer 3

The internet is made up of lots of smaller networks that are linked together. So that makes the internet a huge network. There are millions of users all over the world and when you use it you can be using all sorts of other networks, that are all part of the internet, to view websites.

Answer 4

Because the internet is also a "Web", where smaller webs of computers can connect to other webs of computers, and so on.

Answer 5

Internet is the biggest network because it incorporates the entire world. It is signifies with WWW; that means world wide web.

Answer 6

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