IntroductionThe Internet was created in the 1960s by the Department of Defense as an almost indestructible way to keep the military communicating in the event of a nuclear war. The Internet allows computers all over the world to communicate with one another by sending packets of information through phone lines. It was abandoned by the Department of Defense and kept alive by students of universities and the science divisions of governments all over the world.
For the most part the Internet in the beginning was a "techie" text based medium embraced and used by those in technical and computer-oriented fields to communicate through electronic mail (e-mail) and Usenet. E-mail is like regular postal mail except that it is sent and received by Internet users ov
