Internet On-Ramp: Ready to surf the ‘Net’? Experts reveal the way

By now, you’ve heard the terms “surfing the Net,” “flaming,” “netiquette,” “gophering” and “the Web.” Maybe you’ve received business cards with e-mail addresses such as billg@microsoft.com

This is the language of the Internet – a free-wheeling collection of about five million computers linking 45,000 networks around the world.

Some of these networks are very large, such as the NSFnet (National Science Foundation Network). Others might be as small as one server at a corporation, military installation, school – such as Poudre Elementary and Colorado State University – and maybe even your own organization.

More than 30 million people have already “plugged” into this…