The internet

The internet, in all of our minds that word leads to one thing, wikipedia defines the internet as

a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide.

Though most of you probably think of it as where facebook dwells. But it is so very much more then facebook, email, and youtube. To get into detail about how the interenet works, how it has woven it's way into our lives would take several books, not a single blog post. So I will leave you with a question that should hopefully point your mind in the right direction to find more questions and answers about the simingly omnipotent internet. What made it, and continues to make it, so very very popular and usefull?