Many online sources offer varying definitions, but mostly everyone agrees that the Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that allows sharing or networking of files and information at remote sites from other academic institutions, research institutes, private companies, government agencies and individuals using the Transmission Control Protocol or Internet Protocol, and that communicate through phone and satellite. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks. These include commercial, university and other research networks.

     The internet allows school students as well as adults to do research for pretty much anything in the world. If you are sick, you can look up solutions of how to get rid of your cold. You can find ways to heel an injury from the internet. You can find out anything form the internet from when a show comes on to where to find a type of shoe at to reading a book online.The internet is can be for all ages, but should be monitored by an adult for children that are not yet teenagers. Those children would probably use the internet to play games and fun things of that sort. The internet was a great invention for this world.