| THE INTERNET Explained For Older People, Small Children, and Small Minds |
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A lot has been said about what the "internet" is in the last 30 years. This is where I'm going to set the record straight for the layman on what the internet REALLY is, or should be percieved as, from an end-user standpoint rather than from a technical standpoint, or a TV comedian standpoint.
Basically, while you are thinking "well, the internet is this thing that I'm looking at right now", I'm here to tell you it's way more than that. The Internet encompasses a whole array of data storage/retrieval/display/manipulation technologies, and the list is ever-growing all the time. CreepingNet's Big Table of Internet Technologies Explained for the layman
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