The Internet is a vast network of computers - ranging from banks of powerful corporate machines to a single computer in a teenager's bedroom - linked together by cables and telephone lines. The best known part of the Internet is the World Wide Web, characterized by rich multimedia files that combine text with graphics, audio, photographs, and video. Other less celebrated parts of the Internet exist, carrying computer files that have fewer graphics, such as text documents and databases; but the Web provides the deepest Internet experience.

The term cyberspace is sometimes used to refer to the non-physical space where all this data exists. In these days of satellite links, you don't even necessarily have to be connected by a wire, you can view the Internet via your television. Cyberspace is both everywhere and nowhere. And you, reading this page, are connected.