So just what is the Internet? It's basically a whole bunch of computers around the world connected to one another to form a network. Anyone with the right equipment can connect to the Internet and once you're connected, you can send instant messages, read books, listen to music, and much more. It might help to think of the Internet as a worldwide group of computers talking to one another. That's really all you need to know about it for our purposes, but check out the entry for the Internet in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia if you want to learn more.