On this page, we summarise the advantages that an Internet presence can bring, and provide you with links to other sites, with related material. The Web is the colorful, graphic version of the Internet. Both the Internet and the Web, then, are the Information Superhighway. Someone once said the Internet is the embodiment of human knowledge. A ll of these computers are wired together by telephone lines, microwave radio links, undersea cables, satellite uplinks and downlinks, and fiber optics cables.
Information moves across the backbone at extremely high rates of speeds.
Thousands of regional networks are connected to the backbone. Thosuands of local-area networks are connected to the regional networks. Individual computers are connected to the local networks. S oftware on the networks and on individual computers give access to mammoth repositories of information at seemingly-countless numbers of sites along the Internet. Of course, the numbers of Internet crossroads only seem countless because they are growing dramatically every day.