D on't feel silly for asking. A lot of people talk about the internet as if everybody already knows what it is. The internet is basically a spawling international network of computers.
Nobody owns it.
O ne important change was that businesses started catching on. They, too, had lots of data to splash around and wanted to jump in. T he other revolutionary change that helped bring the internet to people like you and me was the development of the World Wide Web, or WWW, which is how you are seeing this now. The Web is only a part of the whole internet, but without question its fastest growing part. To understand more about the WWW, it's helpful to understand how the whole internet works.