Have you seen the movie from the 1990s about “Internet”? The YouTube clip is from a news program talking about “Internet” when it was still taking off.
I realized from this movie how close we were to calling the Internet “Internet” (with no article). I actually prefer to talk about Internet without the “the” part. For example, “Yesterday on Internet I got an e-mail.” It can’t be too late: join me, drop the “the”, and talk about Internet.