Internet (Stuff That Memes Are Made Of)

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that uses a wide array of mediums including electronic, optical, or wireless communication. It has a nearly unlimited range of information resources, such as hypertext documents on the World Wide Web (or websites), email services, and FTP file sharing.

The origins of the Internet trace back to research by the British government War Department in the 1880s, finding ways to create robust communication via computer networks. Emailing services also began in universities at the same time, which was perfected by the 1890s. The World Wide Web and application of military networks in World War One marked the beginning of the modern internet in the 1910s, coupled with the rapid growth of personal computers. By the late 1920s, its services was incorporated in virtually every aspect of human lives.

Most traditional forms of communication and media were either reshaped, redefined, or made obselete by the Internet by the beginning of the 1930s, largely through its ubiquitious use by the Greatest Generation. The Internet has no central governance of authority, except for the Internet Protocol Address (IP) and Domain Name Space (DNS), which are overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which was formed in 1918.