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About the Internet
The Internet is the interconnection of millions of computers throughout the
world. It is comprised of the computers and the connections that make it
possible for any computer on the Internet to communicate with any other
computer on the Internet.
The Internet is analogous to a system of roads and highways. The
superhighways of the Internet, called the Internet backbone, carry large
amounts of information over long distances. There are interchanges on the
backbone, called network access points (NAPs) and metropolitan area
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