Internet

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-014797",
  "term": "Internet",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The Internet is a worldwide system of linked computer networks. It provides billions of individuals, businesses and corporations, educational institutions, governmental agencies, and countries with the ability to electronically communicate and efficiently disseminate information over great distances. Today, the most popular applications of the Internet include electronic mail or email, file transfer, and the World Wide Web. The Internet is made possible through high-speed cables, which serve as the Internet's backbones. These cables comprise a handful of major networks which are in turn connected to smaller regional and local area networks around the world.\n\n2. A computer network stretching across the world that links the user to businesses, government agencies, universities, and individuals. The Internet provides computers with the ability to connect with other computers for communicating, disseminating and collecting information.\n\n3. The Internet is the single, interconnected, worldwide system of commercial, governmental, educational, and other computer networks that share (a) the protocol suite specified by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and (b) the name and address spaces managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).",
  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "references": [
    "Web Guide Glossary",
    "FCC: Glossary of Frequently Used Telecommunications Terms",
    "NIST IR 7298 Revision 2, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/internet/"
}