The Internet is a worldwide network of computers. There are many millions of people who can access the Internet. Using the tools discussed in this tutorial, you can retrieve information from anywhere in the world in seconds. Later that year, the first nodes of the system went on line at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.
Today there are millions of nodes around the world with the number growing exponentially.
Germantown Academy is directly on the Internet. There are several ways of getting and using information from the Internet. Electronic Mail Electronic mail is the Internet equivalent of personal mail sent via the Post Office, and it is perhaps the most widely used feature of the Internet. Through the use of a person's Internet address, you can send a message around the world and the recipient can read it at leisure seconds later. Email is an easy and efficient way to send information to another person.