Who owns the Internet?
Imagine you're in a room full of people from different countries, and everyone only speaks his or her native language. In order to communicate, you'd have to come up with a standard set of rules and vocabulary. That's what makes the Internet so remarkable: It's a system that lets different computer networks communicate with each other using a standardized set of rules. Without rules, these computer networks wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. Think for a minute about the scope of the Internet. It's a collection of inter-networked computer systems that spans the entire globe. It depends on several sets of rules called protocols . These protocols make it possible for computer communication across networks. It also relies on a huge infrastructure of routers, Network Access Points ( NAPs ) and computer systems. Then there are the satellites, miles of cable and hundreds of wireless routers that transmit signals between computer...