The document provides an overview of the internet including:
- A definition of the internet as a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks.
- Descriptions of some basic internet services including electronic mail, file transfer protocol, telnet, usenet news, the world wide web, and social networking.
- Brief discussions of how the internet developed over time, starting in the late 1950s, and how it grew with developments like the world wide web in the early 1990s.