Isn't that the point? The Internet is an "inter-network", a network of networks. But it wasn't even "The Internet", singular, to begin with. Any network of net

Isn't that the point? The Internet is an "inter-network", a network of networks. But it wasn't even "The Internet", singular, to begin with. Any network of networks is "an internet". It's just when all the networks (or internetworks) are connected together (because Metcalfe's Law - the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users) that it becomes "The Internet".