For decades, most people were so used to using one single type of internet that they have all called it “The Internet.” In Spanish, it’s “la Internet;” in Romanian, “Internetul;” in German, “das Internet.” But what if one day, we would have to use the word “internets” to describe what we’re connecting to? Is that even possible?
Can we live in a world in which two world wide webs operate completely parallel to each other? To find out, we first have to understand a little bit of background.
Understanding Internet(s)
The one internet we have is composed of a series of cables and wireless signals all interconnected into a massive network with other massive networks connected to each other. The simplest way to describe it is as a “network of networks,” or “fractal of networks.”
Your computer sends a signal to a router, which sends a signal to another router, and so on,and so forth, until that signal reaches its destination. Don’t believe me? See the route one of my packets takes to Facebook’s server below.
