06-03-2011, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by elcreative
Local networks within office buildings etc. already have a term - intranet and internet refers to the whole system which includes the WWW but is also Usenet, email and other things such as IRC so the whole "bait'n'switch only works by using terminology incorrectly anyway...  |
http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/internet-vs-internet
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from above link: Basically, an internet is a network of (usually otherwise incompatible) networks. For example – if you were having a LAN party and you had a bunch of PCs and Macs running a TCP/IP network running alongside an AppleShare network, but all playing in the same game, however you manage it, you’d have an internet.
The Internet happens to be quite a well known and rather large scale implementation of an internet, but is unfortunately one which suffers from a rather poor choice of name.
An internet. The Internet. Simple, eh?
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