The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by small package switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of restricted to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and additional technologies.
The Internet carries a variety of information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).