Actually, you inverted the definition of a public good. Public goods are non-rival and non-excludable (ECON 100 this summer).
Because the internet is (sortof) non-rival and non-excludable, it is a public good.
Although, to an extent, nothing is a pure public good: the internet technically is rival (bandwidth is rival, and the internet involves bandwidth consumption).
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Actually, you inverted the definition of a public good. Public goods are non-rival and non-excludable (ECON 100 this summer).
Because the internet is (sortof) non-rival and non-excludable, it is a public good.
Although, to an extent, nothing is a pure public good: the internet technically is rival (bandwidth is rival, and the internet involves bandwidth consumption).