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"When I use the Internet, my computer is connected to millions of other computers"
The Internet is a very large network of computers.
When you use the Internet, your computer is connected to this global network.
The Internet first started in the 1970s, but was very small.
The Internet allows people to:
Email messages can be sent between computers as a simple way to communicate.
You need an email address to send and receive email messages.
If you are using the Internet at home, you may already have an email address.
You can also get an email address for free at one of these websites:
The World Wide Web (or WWW) is a very large collection of websites.
Each website has its own web address.
Each website has between one and many thousand web pages.
Web pages can point to each other by using hyperlinks.
Moving between web pages is called surfing.
