The romantic find it discrete too. Email shrinks worlds, dissipates time zones and makes magnificent economic sense by massively cutting costs. Compare a 200-page email to the US to a fax of that many pages and you will realize the endless opportunities of the Internet. Internet is a vast international public communications network that interconnects thousands of small and large networks so that they work as a single network to permit communication between any two connected end points. The varied software, computers, telecommunications, and media equipment comprising the Internet work together under specialized protocols-rules, or standards, by which computers communicate with other computers.
Computers made by different manufacturers, or vendors, use different protocols.
The Internet is not owned or funded by any one institution, organization, or government. This are the voluntary organizations that make the Internet work and make it the self-correcting body that evolves through maturing of technology. Internet will change lifestyles and it will be a new economic need. As Internet grows larger and more crowded, very quickly and very powerfully you will need it not as a luxury but as essentials.