Internet layperson definition (Score 1)

The internet is short for "inter-networking", and refers to a network of computer networks. This type of network of computer networks was originally developed at the US government organization ARPA and was called ARPAnet. It mainly had four uses or functions:1.HTTP, 2.FTP, 3.Hyper Terminal and 4.Email. It's use proliferated after Tim Berner's Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is the present form in which we still know and use it today.