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Internet

(Net) the worldwide network of computers originally set up by the US
Department of Defense in the late 1960s. Called ARPANET (Advanced Re-search
Projects Agency Network), it was designed to function as a continuing
method of communication should any part of the system be destroyed by nuclear
attack or sabotage. In time, it was used as a means of communication among
university scholars throughout the United States. It eventually evolved into the
popular electronic forum for international communication by way of interac-tive
discussion, email, commercial Websites, entertainment and much more.
The term internet written with a lower case .i. indicates a local computer net-work.