Open source refers to anything a group of people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible. HCI designers and software developers have championed the 'open source' concept and it lies at the heart of the internet itself. Tim Berners-Lee, in all his glorious wisdom, understood that to make the internet possible, you would need everyone using the same tools and accessing the network through the same technology. The internet is an open source idea in that sharing the code along with the delivery system makes others want to use it. Because of this shared technology, it creates a network of a global scale that drives the standardization of code (HTML/CSS/JS) itself.
Open source software is a product of public and open systems, supported by a community, and made up of shared and distributed materials and documentation:
In reality, the internet and all the software that is created around it is more complicated than this...