What is the worldwide network of computers called?

The world-wide network of computers, once the "World-wide Web" is now known as the Internet, short for the International Network (of computers). Once a dream, then a dramatic potentiality as more companies, then more countries, and lastly more individuals gained a computer, this avast computer network links smaller computer networks worldwide so that commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks can all use the same set of communications protocols.