Where is the internet?

[UiriamuChan]

Physically.....

[mairving]

That's a bit like asking 'where is the road?'. It is like a bunch of little roads connected to the interstate. You would have a bunch of people connected to the your ISP (the on-ramp to the interstate). The Internet is merely just a bunch of worldwide networks connected to each other.

Here is a definition of the Internet.

[TwoRails]

I like that answer, mairving! Yep, it's everything starting at the computer and what it can touch along the way to the other end of all the other computers out there that are touchable! Just like the road

[UiriamuChan]

Originally Posted by mairving That's a bit like asking 'where is the road?'. It is like a bunch of little roads connected to the interstate. You would have a bunch of people connected to the your ISP (the on-ramp to the interstate). The Internet is merely just a bunch of worldwide networks connected to each other. Here is a definition of the Internet.

Asking 'where is the road?' is just to broad. 'Which road?' or 'where is which road?' is too specific.

And that's just a definition. It doesn't say where it is.

[bailey]

I think it is located in cyber space
LOL

[TwoRails]

It's every where there are two or more connected computers...

From mairving's link:

Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative, and self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Physically, the Internet uses a portion of the total resources of the currently existing public telecommunication networks.

Yes, it is in CyberSpace

[glc]

But.....but.....but......isn't it all on AOL's servers??????

[(51)]

Originally Posted by glc But.....but.....but......isn't it all on AOL's servers??????

YES

[mairving]

Okay, I've been found out. The Internet is in a closet in a secret room off my attic. If a tornado or fire comes through, there is going to be some downtime.

[Eggs Benediction]

I'm sorry, I once ate the internet for breakfast.

Who knows where it is now... ?

[UiriamuChan]

Originally Posted by TwoRails It's every where there are two or more connected computers... Yes, it is in CyberSpace

Then just what and where is this cyber space?

[Alaron]

Here is a link to Internet Structure on How Stuff Works.com :http://computer.howstuffworks.com/in...astructure.htm

[thefultonhow]

The internet is all over the world. There are servers in the US, El Salvador, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, Poland, Nigeria, and practically every other country. They're all interconnected by various kinds of cables and networking equipment, also in practically every country.

You're not really going to get a straight answer, because the Internet is an abstract concept, not a concrete location. Before it existed, author William Gibson came up with an explanation that described his term "cyberspace" -- it's a "consensual hallucinatioin."

[peekaboo]

isn't the internet right in the heart of the global village?

[rmr]

If you get to here:
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

you are spending to much time on the internet!

[TwoRails]

Lol

[rspassey]

Lol

[Subway1]

if you lived in west melbourne in australia it will probably be in werribee south sewage farm

[Subway1]

Originally Posted by UiriamuChan Physically.....

physically??? knowhere it is not actually a psyical thing

[Londoner]

Hi,

a distinction worth mentioning here is that between the internet and the world wide web. Much of the time the two terms are referred to as if they both meant the same thing, but they don't.

The internet is the means of communication: the servers, the connections between networks. The 'world wide web' is the 'web' or 'mesh' of interconnected hyperlinks (fundamentally html) - the internet actually carries alot more than just web related stuff (eg, file transfer, email, etc).

Where is cyber space? The word was first used by the sci-fi writer William Gibson but here is a definition by Michael Benedikt, the author of 'Cyberspace: First Steps':

". . . A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . . . Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence . . . The realm of pure information . ."