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What is the Internet? The Internet is the cabling, software, hardware and other infrastructure that connects millions of computers in networks around the world. People with Internet-connected computers can quickly share and transfer information back and forth. Currently, the four primary uses for the Internet are the World Wide Web, email, instant messaging, and newsgroups.

The World Wide Web itself is a large network of graphical and text-based pages that connect each other over the Internet. Web pages can also contain sound, video, and other multimedia elements. Pages are connected to each other using "hyperlinks" to make navigation simple and intuitive. But since most of us use the Web when we connect to the Internet, and because the two technologies overlap more every day, "the Web" and "the Internet" are coming to mean more or less the same thing to most people.

When we connect to the Internet, we use the infrastructure to browse the Web, email our friends and coworkers, hold conversations with instant messaging, enjoy news groups, and do a variety of other fun and necessary things. The World Wide Web, email, instant messaging and newsgroups all use the Internet to connect people.

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