Internet

The Internet, also known as the Interweb, refers to a series of private and state computer networks that was used primarily among Human societies on hundreds of worlds for social, entertainment, informative, legal, political, military, and financial purposes. Each planet or sector typically had its own Internet services with varying content and restrictions. Individuals accessed their local Internet using computers or other devices such as cellular phones and datapads. The predecessor to the Internet developed on Coruscant around 5000 BBY and by the time of the Mandalorian Wars dozens of Republic worlds had their own computer networks, though this 'Proto-Internet' was very simple and for many millennia would only be used by militaries, scientists, journalists, and explorers as a means of advanced communication. By 100 BBY, the Internet and its variations had become commonplace in the everyday life of Humans on about 250 worlds of the Republic, Corporate Sector Alliance, and other prevalent governments as time passed. As some governments enforced heavy censorship of their Internet platforms, their inhabitants formed 'bootleg' Internets known as hotspots or darknets, which primarily were just freer Internet platforms though some were also host to illicit activity. Internet platforms that were operated on an interstellar scales relied on both ground-based transmitters and deep space-based 'web nodes' that relayed computer signals and allowed for an almost instant transfer of data between server systems that were under the same Internet platform; this meant that an Internet platform could be effectively disrupted if only some of the transmitters and nodes were sabotaged. An Internet platform's data could also be entirely wiped if data servers are also destroyed. Notable Internet platforms included the HoloNet and CoreNet in Republic/Imperial sectors, MandalNet in the Mandalore sector, CorpNet in the Corporate Sector, TioNet in the Tion Hegemony, RaxusNet and FreeNet in Separatist sectors, HuttNet in Hutt Space, BlackWeb in Black Sun territories, and the FreeNet in the Rebel Alliance.