re: Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
I thought my understanding was rudimentary at best...
Like everything, some of the system's strengths (Address naming conventions was a good example) are also some of its weaknesses.
I guess "protocal" probably isn't the real definer of the Internet anyway so much as the way that the "data packets" are moved from point A to point B.
We all control a tiny bit of the Internet. That being a minimum of the Modem and wire connected to the phone line...Unless we borrowed the PC or phone or fax or use a wireless router or.......