Why can’t we just make our own internets, or separate ones that no one can access?
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The internet is really just a bunch of wires connecting a bunch of computers to each other. So, you can certainly just get a bunch of computers and connect them with wires and turn it into its own network, sure.
But the internet is a useful tool because of how widespread it is. You wouldn’t be able to access anything that you didn’t put on there yourself, for example. Finding a use case for making something like that on a large scale would be hard.
That said, businesses and even some tech savvy families routinely create local networks for things like private, secure file sharing. I remember in middle school we used to access our class files by going to the right folder in the “F: drive”. That was an “internet,” of sorts.
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