internetting

(rare) The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.

The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).

• Goals are postulated for future DOD [Department of Defense] growth in automated command and control capability and guidelines are generated which will aid future planners in specifying individual system characteristics...
• Last year we had planned to reduce the number of these radars to 151 by end fiscal year 1967. As you may recall, this reduction was predicated on the internetting of our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation...
• The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported in 1975[…], that the system's management should address the need for improving (1) computer security and (2) the effectiveness and efficiency of internetting between...

The act of connecting multiple computer networks together; internetworking.

• Internetting is the creation of a network of networks by interconnection of two or more computer networks. - 1978 January, Frank Heinrich, “Usage of the NBS Data Encryption Algorithm”, in The Network Security Center: A...
• "Internetting can make or break a network," Sytek, Inc.'s Robert R. Shatzer said during a session on local-area network gateways at the Interface '82 conference here last week. […] To illustrate the internetting...
• The user pays about 90 percent of the total costs of internetting—for a workstation or personal computer (PC), software, the local nets, and external connections—most of which would be paid by the user in any case for...

(informal) The act of using the Internet; specifically, searching for information using the Internet.

• "I understand," Stoll said stiffly. "I'll do some hacking, internetting, see what I can find." - 1995 November, [Jeff Rovin], created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, “Monday, 8:20 a.m., Washington, D.C.”, in Tom...