Question

Is there only one internet?

Answer 1

one that we can access, around an infinite more that belong to the dark lord..

Answer 2

internet is an interconnection of networks. The one people generally refer to, is the Internet (capital i). But by definition, an internet can be a group of networks which are interconnected. So, a subset of Internet can also be referred to as internet and any other collection of networks outside Internet can also be an internet.

Answer 3

@A_clan i am quite sure it's the well known international network he is talking about.. and no, a couple of computer networks cannot be considered an international network..in addition, there is no need of making plenty of international networks..

Answer 4

imagine there are two internets,
could a web address or email adress for example correspond to different things on the different internets?

Answer 5

what would happen if two separate internets were to join up.

Answer 6

someday I will enter hyperspace and type something other than WWW or AOL in the address bar.

Answer 7

There are multiple ones actually. The main one "World Wide Web" but there is also underground ones like TOR.

Answer 8

Internet 2 (or v2.0) is a nickname for the testing going on between universities for massively high speeds (akin to how the original internet was originally just a handful of networked mainframes between colleges).

Answer 9

The original internet was Arpanet which was for the GOV'T.

Answer 10

@KonradZuse we're both right :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The network was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense for use by its projects at universities and research laboratories in the US.

Answer 11

@infinity Why would a couple of networks on different countries that are connected NOT be called an international network? It's a network, and it's international. Also, "international network" is not what 'internet' means anyway. A_Clan is quite right that it simply means interconnected networks. As such, there definitely exists other "internets" out there, but they may not be referred to as such since it would cause confusion; they're relatively poorly known; and they're typically used for very specific purposes - for example financial networks, or the Police National Computer network.

@KonradZuse the WWW and TOR are not internets, they are services, both of which run on the Internet.

@UnkleRhaukus if two internetworks had web services on them, then yes, the same web address could point to a different resource on each internet. And if two internets were to join up, you would just have one bigger internet.