What is the Internet?

What is the internet? Short answer: a distributed packet-switched network. This is the introduction video to the series, "How the Internet Works". Vint Cerf, one of the "fathers of the internet" explains the history of how the net and how no one person or organization is really in charge of it. Watch the rest of the series to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdnOPI1iJNfMRZm5DDxco3UdsFegvuB7 Start learning at http://code.org/ Stay in touch with us! • on Twitter https://twitter.com/codeorg • on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Code.org • on Instagram https://instagram.com/codeorg • on Tumblr https://blog.code.org • on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-org • on Google+ https://google.com/+codeorg Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/Vxaw/