A worldwide network of computer networks that can share information because a common set of language protocols (“TCP/IP”) are used by all. Having origins similar to America’s interstate highway system, the Internet was created in the interests of national defense by the US government. Begun by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn in the early 1970’s to allow military computers to talk reliably to university research computers, the Internet has grown ever since. In the 1990’s the Internet caught the public’s fancy and the growth rate exploded. Up to this point there had been an understanding that the Internet was to be used only for non-profit enterprises such as research, but by the mid-1990, s it had clearly become a free-for-all venture, with over 20 million users in over 175 countries. As this is being written in 1995, it must be said the Internet is clearly going through all the usual growing pains of any organization of this magnitude, and tomorrow’s Internet will be different from today’s.