It controls the exchange of information between computers. In 1991 the World Wide Web was created providing a new way to link sources of information. Where the internet refers to the infrastructure - the physical linking of facilities, the Web refers to the linkage of information. The Internet is everywhere, spanning many continents and countries - it is indeed global. That continues to be a major use of the Internet, but it has expanded to include multimedia - sound and graphics.
Electronic mail appears in many shapes and forms.
At KSU, Elm and Pine are available on the University Unix computer system - the computer system available to the general university community. This enables us to refer to computers by a relatively simple and easy to remember term. The software at your local computer translates a domain name into its numeric IP address before sending information out on the internet. Domain names use a hierarchical naming pattern, each component separated by a period. Each site determines its own computer names.