INTERNET

An international grouping of computer networks. The Internet started as a relatively tiny United States Department of Defense (DOD) Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) project in 1969. It commenced with the networking of four computers. The Internet was not widely known between 1969 and 1991. Its popularity exploded when HTML , HTTP , and the World Wide Web made it much easier to use the Internet. For interactive computing between computers on the Internet, see Distributed Network Computing . For web browsers see Web browsers , Java , GINA , Gopher , Mosaic , and SLIP . For accounting educator Internet networks see ANet , ADO and RDS , International Internet Association , Internet 2 , PIC-AECM , and RAW . (See also ABKY , IKE , Sonet , Telnet , FTP , TENet , ARPANet , BITNET , World Wide Web , Finger Gateway , Whois Gateway , UUCP , NSFNet , NYSERNet , Gateways , Outernets , Macmillan Information SuperLibrary , Remote login , Search engine , TCP/IP , and USENet )