Table of Contents
515 relations: Academy, ADSL, Africa, AFRINIC, Airbnb, Alexa Internet, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Andrew Keen, Andrew Odlyzko, AP Stylebook, APNIC, App store, Apple Inc., Application layer, ARPANET, ASCII, Asia, Asia–Pacific, Astroturfing, Audience, Audit, Authentication, Avis Car Rental, BBC News, Bit numbering, Bit rate, Bitwise operation, Blog, Border Gateway Protocol, Botnet, Brick and mortar, Broadband, Broadcast television systems, Browser game, Business-to-business, Cable modem, Cable television, Capitalization of Internet, Carbon copy, Caribbean, CBeebies, Cell site, Censorship, Censorship in China, Censorship in North Korea, Central Asia, CERFnet, CERN, CERN httpd, Chat room, ... Expand index (465 more) »
- Computer-related introductions in 1969
- Main topic articles
- Transport systems
Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).
ADSL
Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
AFRINIC
AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa.
Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays and experiences in various countries and regions.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco.
See Internet and Alexa Internet
American Registry for Internet Numbers
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the regional Internet registry for the United States, Canada, and many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands.
See Internet and American Registry for Internet Numbers
Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen (born c. 1960Saracevic, Alan T. (15 October 2006). San Francisco Chronicle ("Age: 46")) is a British-American entrepreneur and author.
Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Michael Odlyzko (Andrzej Odłyżko) (born 23 July 1949) is a Polish-American mathematician and a former head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center and of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
See Internet and Andrew Odlyzko
AP Stylebook
The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City.
APNIC
APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia–Pacific region.
App store
An app store, also called an app marketplace or app catalog, is a type of digital distribution platform for computer software called applications, often in a mobile context.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Application layer
An application layer is an abstraction layer that specifies the shared communication protocols and interface methods used by hosts in a communications network.
See Internet and Application layer
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Internet and ARPANET are 1969 establishments in the United States, American inventions and computer-related introductions in 1969.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Asia–Pacific
The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.
Astroturfing
Astroturfing is the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, grassroots participants.
Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium.
Audit
An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon." Auditing also attempts to ensure that the books of accounts are properly maintained by the concern as required by law.
Authentication
Authentication (from authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user.
See Internet and Authentication
Avis Car Rental
Avis Car Rental, LLC is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.
See Internet and Avis Car Rental
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bit numbering
In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.
See Internet and Bit numbering
Bit rate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.
Bitwise operation
In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits.
See Internet and Bitwise operation
Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Internet and blog are new media.
Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet.
See Internet and Border Gateway Protocol
Botnet
A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots.
Brick and mortar
Brick and mortar (or B&M) is an organization or business with a physical presence in a building or other structure.
See Internet and Brick and mortar
Broadband
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access. Internet and broadband are digital technology.
Broadcast television systems
Broadcast television systems (or terrestrial television systems outside the US and Canada) are the encoding or formatting systems for the transmission and reception of terrestrial television signals.
See Internet and Broadcast television systems
Browser game
A browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser.
Business-to-business
Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another.
See Internet and Business-to-business
Cable modem
A cable modem is a type of network bridge that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC), radio frequency over glass (RFoG) and coaxial cable infrastructure.
Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
See Internet and Cable television
Capitalization of Internet
Orthographic conventions have varied over time, and vary by publishers, authors, and regional preferences, on whether and when Internet should be capitalized.
See Internet and Capitalization of Internet
Carbon copy
Before the development of photographic copiers, a carbon copy was the under-copy of a typed or written document placed over carbon paper and the under-copy sheet itself (not to be confused with the carbon print family of photographic reproduction processes).
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
CBeebies
CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
Cell site
A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network.
Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
Censorship in China
Censorship in the People's Republic of China is mandated by the PRC's ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
See Internet and Censorship in China
Censorship in North Korea
North Korea ranks among some of the most extreme censorship in the world, with the government able to take strict control over communications.
See Internet and Censorship in North Korea
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
CERFnet
The California Education and Research Federation Network (CERFnet) is a mid-level network service provider based in California.
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
CERN httpd
CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.
Chat room
The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.
Chatham House
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, is a British think tank based in London, England.
See Internet and Chatham House
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Child pornography
Child pornography (also called CP, child sexual abuse material, CSAM, child porn, kiddie porn) is erotic material that depicts persons under the designated age of majority.
See Internet and Child pornography
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is a method for allocating IP addresses for IP routing.
See Internet and Classless Inter-Domain Routing
Client–server model
The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients.
See Internet and Client–server model
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
See Internet and Cloud computing
Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which data, said to be on "the cloud", is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users over a network, typically the Internet.
See Internet and Cloud storage
Coaxial cable
Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced), is a type of electrical cable consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by a concentric conducting shield, with the two separated by a dielectric (insulating material); many coaxial cables also have a protective outer sheath or jacket.
See Internet and Coaxial cable
Collaboration
Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together --> to complete a task or achieve a goal.
See Internet and Collaboration
Collaborative software
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals.
See Internet and Collaborative software
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Commercial Internet eXchange
The Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) was an early interexchange point that allowed the free exchange of TCP/IP traffic, including commercial traffic, between ISPs.
See Internet and Commercial Internet eXchange
Commercialization of the Internet
The commercialization of the Internet encompasses the creation and management of online services principally for financial gain.
See Internet and Commercialization of the Internet
Communication protocol
A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.
See Internet and Communication protocol
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), also known as the "Digital Telephony Act," is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001–1010).
See Internet and Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
CompuServe
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS or later CSi) was an American online service, the first major commercial one in the world.
Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
Computer file
In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename.
See Internet and Computer file
Computer graphics
Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.
See Internet and Computer graphics
Computer literacy
Computer literacy is defined as the knowledge and ability to use computers and related technology efficiently, with skill levels ranging from elementary use to computer programming and advanced problem solving.
See Internet and Computer literacy
Computer network
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.
See Internet and Computer network
Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing is a short documentary film from 1972, produced by Steven King and directed/edited by Peter Chvany, about ARPANET, an early packet-switching network and one of the first networks to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.
See Internet and Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
See Internet and Computer science
Computer security
Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.
See Internet and Computer security
Computer virus
A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.
See Internet and Computer virus
Computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.
See Internet and Computer worm
Conference call
A conference call (sometimes called an audio teleconference or ATC) is a telephone call in which someone talks to several people at the same time.
See Internet and Conference call
Consolidation (business)
In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones.
See Internet and Consolidation (business)
Content delivery network
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.
See Internet and Content delivery network
Content management
Content management (CM) are a set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.
See Internet and Content management
Cooperative banking
Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis.
See Internet and Cooperative banking
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
See Internet and Cornell University
Cost
Cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore.
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers.
See Internet and Crowdsourcing
CSNET
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a computer network that began operation in 1981 in the United States.
Customer
In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or an idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or an exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying (cyberharassment or online bullying) is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
See Internet and Cyberbullying
Cybercrime
Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of criminal activities that are carried out using digital devices and/or networks.
Cybersectarianism
Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing.
See Internet and Cybersectarianism
Cyberspace
Cyberspace is an interconnected digital environment. Internet and Cyberspace are virtual reality.
Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare is the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state, causing comparable harm to actual warfare and/or disrupting vital computer systems.
CYCLADES
The CYCLADES computer network was a French research network created in the early 1970s.
Darknet
A dark net or darknet is an overlay network within the Internet that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, and often uses a unique customized communication protocol.
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Data (computer science)
In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data.
See Internet and Data (computer science)
Data card
A datacard is an electronic card for data operations (storage, transfer, transformation, input, output).
Data center
A data center (American English) or data centre (Commonwealth English)See spelling differences.
Data communication
Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Internet and data communication are mass media technology and telecommunications.
See Internet and Data communication
Data mining
Data mining is the process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems.
Debkafile
DEBKAfile (תיק דבקה) was an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, providing commentary and analyses on terrorism, intelligence, national security, military and international relations, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
Deep web
The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engine programs.
Default gateway
A default gateway is the node in a computer network using the Internet protocol suite that serves as the forwarding host (router) to other networks when no other route specification matches the destination IP address of a packet.
See Internet and Default gateway
Default route
In computer networking, the default route is a configuration of the Internet Protocol (IP) that establishes a forwarding rule for packets when no specific address of a next-hop host is available from the routing table or other routing mechanisms.
See Internet and Default route
Denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.
See Internet and Denial-of-service attack
Digital citizen
The term digital citizen is used with different meanings. Internet and digital citizen are digital technology.
See Internet and Digital citizen
Digital display advertising
Digital display advertising is online graphic advertising through banners, text, images, video, and audio.
See Internet and Digital display advertising
Digital divide
The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. Internet and digital divide are cultural globalization.
See Internet and Digital divide
Digital economy
The digital economy is a portmanteau of digital computing and economy, and is an umbrella term that describes how traditional brick-and-mortar economic activities (production, distribution, trade) are being transformed by the Internet and World Wide Web technologies.
See Internet and Digital economy
Digital media use and mental health
The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of text messaging.
See Internet and Digital media use and mental health
Digital music store
A digital music store is a business that sells digital audio files of music recordings over the Internet.
See Internet and Digital music store
Digital signature
A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.
See Internet and Digital signature
Digital subscriber line
Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. Internet and digital subscriber line are American inventions and digital technology.
See Internet and Digital subscriber line
Distance education
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance.
See Internet and Distance education
DNS root zone
The DNS root zone is the top-level DNS zone in the hierarchical namespace of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.
See Internet and DNS root zone
Document
A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content.
Domain name
In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.
Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
See Internet and Domain Name System
Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist and Internet pioneer who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
See Internet and Donald Davies
DonorsChoose
DonorsChoose is a United States-based nonprofit organization that allows individuals to donate directly to public school classroom projects.
Dot-decimal notation
Dot-decimal notation is a presentation format for numerical data.
See Internet and Dot-decimal notation
Doxing
Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network using a client–server architecture.
See Internet and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Dynamic web page
A dynamic web page is a web page constructed at runtime (during software execution), as opposed to a static web page, delivered as it is stored.
See Internet and Dynamic web page
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.
E-commerce payment system
An e-commerce payment system (or an electronic payment system) facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for offline transfer, also known as a subcomponent of electronic data interchange (EDI), e-commerce payment systems have become increasingly popular due to the widespread use of the internet-based shopping and banking.
See Internet and E-commerce payment system
E-government
E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region. Internet and e-government are public services.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Economic inequality
Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
See Internet and Economic inequality
Edholm's law
Edholm's law, proposed by and named after Phil Edholm, refers to the observation that the three categories of telecommunication, namely wireless (mobile), nomadic (wireless without mobility) and wired networks (fixed), are in lockstep and gradually converging.
Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Internet and Education are main topic articles.
Electric energy consumption
Electric energy consumption is energy consumption in the form of electrical energy.
See Internet and Electric energy consumption
Electric power distribution
Electric power distribution is the final stage in the delivery of electricity.
See Internet and Electric power distribution
Electronic business
Electronic business (also known as online business or e-business) is any kind of business or commercial transaction that includes sharing information across the internet.
See Internet and Electronic business
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Email address
An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered.
See Internet and Email address
Email attachment
An email attachment is a computer file sent along with an email message.
See Internet and Email attachment
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.
Energy consumption
Energy consumption is the amount of energy used.
See Internet and Energy consumption
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.
See Internet and English Wikipedia
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
See Internet and Entrepreneurship
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). Internet and Ethernet are American inventions.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
See Internet and Federal Bureau of Investigation
Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Fiber-optic cable
A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light.
See Internet and Fiber-optic cable
File server
In computing, a file server (or fileserver) is a computer attached to a network that provides a location for shared disk access, i.e. storage of computer files (such as text, image, sound, video) that can be accessed by workstations within a computer network.
File sharing
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.
File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.
See Internet and File Transfer Protocol
Financial institution
A financial institution, sometimes called a banking institution, is a business entity that provides service as an intermediary for different types of financial monetary transactions.
See Internet and Financial institution
Financial services
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
See Internet and Financial services
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
First-person shooter
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.
See Internet and First-person shooter
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.
Fragmentation (computing)
In computer storage, fragmentation is a phenomenon in which storage space, main storage or secondary storage, such as computer memory or a hard drive, is used inefficiently, reducing capacity or performance and often both.
See Internet and Fragmentation (computing)
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Free software movement
The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software.
See Internet and Free software movement
Fully qualified domain name
A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name, is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS).
See Internet and Fully qualified domain name
Game
A game is a structured type of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool.
GameSpy Arcade
GameSpy Arcade was a shareware multiplayer game server browsing utility.
See Internet and GameSpy Arcade
GÉANT
GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community.
GCHQ
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primarily based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary.
Gen Digital
Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic.
Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech and GT or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
Global network
A global network is any communication network which spans the entire Earth.
See Internet and Global network
Global North and Global South
Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.
See Internet and Global North and Global South
GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States that provides a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots charitable projects.
GLORIAD
GLORIAD (Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development) is a high-speed computer network used to connect scientific organizations in Russia, China, United States, the Netherlands, Korea and Canada.
Goldbricking
Goldbricking (also called cyberloafing or cyberslacking) is the practice of doing less work than one is able to, while maintaining the appearance of working.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google.
See Internet and Google Chrome
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
See Internet and Google Scholar
Google Search
Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google.
See Internet and Google Search
Grant writing
Grant writing is the practice of completing an application process for a financial grant, which are often provided by governments, corporations, foundations, and trusts.
See Internet and Grant writing
Grassroots
A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
Hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.
Handheld game console
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.
See Internet and Handheld game console
Harassment
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature.
Hate speech
Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition.
Hertz Global Holdings
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (formerly The Hertz Corporation), known as Hertz, is an American car rental company based in Estero, Florida.
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Hilton Worldwide
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is an American multinational hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels, resorts, and timeshare properties.
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Homework
Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home.
Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.
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Host (network)
A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network.
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Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
HTML editor
An HTML editor is a program used for editing HTML, the markup of a web page.
HTTP
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
Hyperlink
In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference to data that the user can follow or be guided to by clicking or tapping.
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Internet and Hypertext are American inventions.
Hyphanet
Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication.
I am lonely will anyone speak to me
"i am lonely will anyone speak to me" was the title of a thread that was posted on the Internet forum of the video codec downloads site Moviecodec.com, and had become "the web's top hangout for lonely folk".
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ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation.
Income distribution
In economics, income distribution covers how a country's total GDP is distributed amongst its population.
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Index of Internet-related articles
This page provides an index of articles thought to be Internet or Web related topics.
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Informal education
Informal education is a general term for education that can occur outside of a traditional lecture or school based learning systems.
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Information and communications technology
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and manipulate information.
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Information Awareness Office
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S.
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Information Processing Techniques Office
The Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), originally "Command and Control Research",Lyon, Matthew; Hafner, Katie (1999-08-19).
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.
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Institute for Local Self-Reliance
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a nonprofit organization and advocacy group that was founded in 1974.
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Interactive kiosk
An interactive kiosk is a computer terminal featuring specialized hardware and software that provides access to information and applications for communication, commerce, entertainment, or education. Internet and interactive kiosk are promotion and marketing communications.
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Interference theory
The interference theory is a theory regarding human memory.
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International Data Group
International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.
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International Network Working Group
The International Network Working Group (INWG) was a group of prominent computer science researchers in the 1970s who studied and developed standards and protocols for interconnection of computer networks.
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.
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Internet access
Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet and Internet access are public services.
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Internet activism
Internet activism involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences, as well as coordination.
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Internet addiction disorder
Internet addiction disorder (IAD), also known as problematic internet use or pathological internet use, is problematic, compulsive use of the internet, particularly social media, that impairs individual function over a prolonged period of time.
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Internet Architecture Board
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC).
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Internet café
An Internet café, also known as a cybercafé, is a café (or a convenience store or a fully dedicated Internet access business) that provides the use of computers with high bandwidth Internet access on the payment of a fee.
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Internet censorship
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet.
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Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
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Internet exchange point
Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks.
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.
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Internet filter
An Internet filter is software that restricts or controls the content an Internet user is capable to access, especially when utilized to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, Email, or other means.
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Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance.
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Internet in Egypt
The Internet is accessible to the majority of the population in Egypt, whether via smartphones, internet cafes, or home connections.
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Internet industry jargon
Internet industry jargon is a unique way of speaking used by people working in the internet industry.
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Internet layer
The internet layer is a group of internetworking methods, protocols, and specifications in the Internet protocol suite that are used to transport network packets from the originating host across network boundaries; if necessary, to the destination host specified by an IP address.
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Internet metaphors
Internet metaphors provide users and researchers of the Internet a structure for understanding and communicating its various functions, uses, and experiences.
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Internet outage
An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services.
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Internet pornography
Internet pornography is any pornography that is accessible over the Internet; primarily via websites, FTP connections, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. Internet and Internet pornography are new media.
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Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.
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Internet protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.
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Internet research
Internet research is the practice of using Internet information, especially free information on the World Wide Web, or Internet-based resources (like Internet discussion forum) in research.
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Internet Research Task Force
The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is an organization, overseen by the Internet Architecture Board, that focuses on longer-term research issues related to the Internet.
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.
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Internet Society
The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world.
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Internet Standard
In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet.
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Internet traffic
Internet traffic is the flow of data within the entire Internet, or in certain network links of its constituent networks.
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Internet transit
Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet.
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Internet video
Internet video (also known as online video) is digital video that is distributed over the internet.
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Internet2
Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.
Internets
"Internets", also known as "The Internets", is a Bushism-turned catchphrase used humorously to portray the speaker as ignorant about the Internet or about technology in general, or alternatively as having a provincial or folksy attitude toward technology.
Internetworking
Internetworking is the practice of interconnecting multiple computer networks, such that any pair of hosts in the connected networks can exchange messages irrespective of their hardware-level networking technology.
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Intranet
An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders.
IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
IP routing
IP routing is the application of routing methodologies to IP networks.
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first version of the Internet Protocol (IP) as a standalone specification.
IPv4 address exhaustion
IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses.
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IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.
IPv6 deployment
The deployment of IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), has been in progress since the mid-2000s.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
IRC
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
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J. C. R. Licklider
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologistMiller, G. A.
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JANET
Janet is a high-speed network for the UK research and education community provided by Jisc, a not-for-profit company set up to provide computing support for education.
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.
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Jon Postel
Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.
Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
Kilowatt-hour
A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.
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Kiva (organization)
Kiva Microfunds is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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LACNIC
LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
Languages used on the Internet
Slightly over half of the homepages of the most visited websites on the World Wide Web are in English, with varying amounts of information available in many other languages.
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Laptop
A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).
Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. Internet and laser are American inventions.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Leased line
A leased line is a private telecommunications circuit between two or more locations provided according to a commercial contract.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF).
Lifewire
Lifewire is a technology information and advice website.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Link layer
In computer networking, the link layer is the lowest layer in the Internet protocol suite, the networking architecture of the Internet.
LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
List of countries by number of Internet users
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin (born 20 April 1931) is a French computer scientist and Internet pioneer.
Malware
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).
Marketing
Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers. Internet and Marketing are promotion and marketing communications.
Mashable
Mashable is a news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2004.
Mask (computing)
In computer science, a mask or bitmask is data that is used for bitwise operations, particularly in a bit field.
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.
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MCI Mail
MCI Mail was one of the first commercial email services in the United States and one of the largest telecommunication services in the world.
MD5
The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value.
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Merit Network
Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan.
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Microfinance
Microfinance is a of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge (or simply Edge) is a proprietary cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Ministry of Intelligence (Iran)
The Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Vezarat-e Ettela'at Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran) is the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the Iran Intelligence Community.
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Mirror site
Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.
Mobile advertising
Mobile advertising is a form of advertising via mobile (wireless) phones or other mobile devices. Internet and mobile advertising are promotion and marketing communications.
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Mobile app
A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.
Mobile broadband
Mobile broadband is the marketing term for wireless Internet access via mobile (cell) networks.
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Mobile broadband modem
A mobile broadband modem, also known as wireless modem or cellular modem, is a type of modem that allows a personal computer or a router to receive wireless Internet access via a mobile broadband connection instead of using telephone or cable television lines.
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Mobile device
A mobile device or handheld computer is a computer small enough to hold and operate in hand.
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Mobile Internet device
A mobile Internet device (MID) is a multimedia capable mobile device providing wireless Internet access.
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Mobile telephony
Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to mobile phones rather than fixed-location phones (landline phones). Internet and mobile telephony are American inventions.
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Mobile web
The mobile web comprises mobile browser-based World Wide Web services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.
Modem
A modulator-demodulator or most commonly referred to as modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio. Internet and modem are American inventions.
Mojibake
Mojibake (文字化け;, "character transformation") is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding.
MOO
A MOO ("MUD, object-oriented") is a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users (players) are connected at the same time.
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Moore's law
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
MOSFET
W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
Mozilla
Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.
MPlayer.com
Mplayer, referred to as Mplayer.com by 1998, was a free online PC gaming service and community that operated from late 1996 until early 2001.
Multi-user dungeon
A multi-user dungeon (MUD), also known as a multi-user dimension or multi-user domain, is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded.
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Multihoming
Multihoming is the practice of connecting a host or a computer network to more than one network.
Multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users. Internet and Multimedia are new media.
Multiplayer video game
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Namespace
In computing, a namespace is a set of signs (names) that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds.
National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom.
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National research and education network
A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.
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National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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National Science Foundation Network
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.
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National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the president's principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States' economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the telecommunications industry.
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Netizen
The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen, as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen".
Network service
In computer networking, a network service is an application running at the network application layer and above, that provides data storage, manipulation, presentation, communication or other capability which is often implemented using a client–server or peer-to-peer architecture based on application layer network protocols.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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News aggregator
In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, content aggregator, feed reader, news reader, or simply an aggregator, is client software or a web application that aggregates digital content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing.
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Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American journalist and writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Node (networking)
In telecommunications networks, a node (‘knot’) is either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint.
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Noise (signal processing)
In signal processing, noise is a general term for unwanted (and, in general, unknown) modifications that a signal may suffer during capture, storage, transmission, processing, or conversion.
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Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.
NORSAR
NORSAR is a foundation established in 1968 as part of the Norwegian-US agreement for the detection of earthquakes and nuclear explosions.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt – FFI) is a research institute that conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and military defence leaders.
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NPL network
The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching.
Online advertising
Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.
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Online chat
Online chat is any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.
Online disinhibition effect
The online disinhibition effect refers to the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to communicating in-person.
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Online gambling
Online gambling (also known as iGaming or iGambling) is any kind of gambling conducted on the internet.
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Online participation
Online participation is used to describe the interaction between users and online communities on the web.
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Online shopping
Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app.
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Online university
A virtual university (or online university) provides higher education programs through electronic media, typically the Internet.
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OP Financial Group
OP Financial Group is one of the largest financial companies in Finland.
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OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.
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Opera (web browser)
Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.
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Optical networking
Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks.
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Optical transistor
An optical transistor, also known as an optical switch or a light valve, is a device that switches or amplifies optical signals.
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Orange S.A.
Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom S.A., stylised as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company.
Organization
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
Outline of the Internet
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Packet analyzer
A packet analyzer, also known as packet sniffer, protocol analyzer, or network analyzer, is a computer program or computer hardware such as a packet capture appliance that can analyze and log traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network.
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Packet capture appliance
A packet capture appliance is a standalone device that performs packet capture.
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Packet switching
In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping data into short messages in fixed format, i.e. packets, that are transmitted over a digital network.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
Paul Baran
Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was an American-Jewish engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks.
Payphone
A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas. Internet and payphone are American inventions.
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
Peer-to-peer lending
Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers.
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Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the "down-stream" users of each network.
Pen pal
Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail.
Personal computer
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use. Internet and personal computer are American inventions.
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Personal data
Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person.
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Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.
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Peter T. Kirstein
Peter Thomas Kirstein (né Kirschstein; 20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Plain text
In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.
Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Portable media player
A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.
See Internet and Portable media player
Postal, telegraph and telephone service
A postal, telegraph, and telephone service (or PTT) is a government agency responsible for postal mail, telegraph, and telephone services.
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Prior art
Prior art (also known as state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive step or non-obviousness criteria for patentability.
Private network
In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network that uses a private address space of IP addresses.
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Productivity software
Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video).
See Internet and Productivity software
Promotion (marketing)
In marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue, persuasively. Internet and promotion (marketing) are promotion and marketing communications.
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Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
Psychological effects of Internet use
Various researchers have undertaken efforts to examine the psychological effects of Internet use.
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Public data network
A public data network (PDN) is a network established and operated by a telecommunications administration, or a recognized private operating agency, for the specific purpose of providing data transmission services for the public. Internet and public data network are telecommunications.
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Public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.
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Public service
A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community. Internet and public service are public services.
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Public sphere
The public sphere (Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
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Publishing
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.
Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Internet and radio are promotion and marketing communications and telecommunications.
RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.
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Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of cryptovirological malware that permanently blocks access to the victim's personal data unless a "ransom" is paid.
Raytheon BBN
Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.
Regional Internet registry
A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world.
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Remote Desktop Protocol
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft Corporation which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.
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Remote work
Remote work (also called telecommuting, telework, work from home—or WFH as an initialism, hybrid work, and other terms) is the practice of working from one's home or another space rather than from an office.
Request for Comments
A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Internet and Request for Comments are computer-related introductions in 1969.
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Ricochet (Internet service)
Ricochet was one of the first wireless Internet access services in the United States, before Wi-Fi, 3G, and other technologies were available to the general public.
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RIPE
Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE, French for "European IP Networks") is a forum open to all parties with an interest in the technical development of the Internet.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia.
Robert Kahn (computer scientist)
Bob Kahn (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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Role-playing video game
A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.
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Router (computing)
A router is a computer and networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks, including internetworks such as the global Internet.
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Routing protocol
A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select paths between nodes on a computer network.
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Routing table
In computer networking, a routing table, or routing information base (RIB), is a data table stored in a router or a network host that lists the routes to particular network destinations, and in some cases, metrics (distances) associated with those routes.
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Safari (web browser)
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple.
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Sales
Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Satellite Internet access
Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Screenshot
A screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab) is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer display.
Search engine
A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query.
See Internet and Search engine
Search engine marketing
Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) primarily through paid advertising.
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Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. Internet and search engine optimization are promotion and marketing communications.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Server (computing)
A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network.
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Sexual grooming
Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a minor, and sometimes the child's family, to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse.
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Shared resource
In computing, a shared resource, or network share, is a computer resource made available from one host to other hosts on a computer network.
See Internet and Shared resource
Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.
Small business
Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have a small number of employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation.
See Internet and Small business
Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
Social experiment
A social experiment is a method of psychological or sociological research that observes people's reactions to certain situations or events.
See Internet and Social experiment
Social media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
Social networking service
A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
See Internet and Social networking service
Social peer-to-peer processes
Social peer-to-peer processes are interactions among humans with a peer-to-peer dynamic.
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Sociology of the Internet
The sociology of the Internet (or the social psychology of the internet) involves the application of sociological or social psychological theory and method to the Internet as a source of information and communication.
See Internet and Sociology of the Internet
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
Spamming
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
Spyware
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user by violating their privacy, endangering their device's security, or other means.
SRI International
SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Stanford Federal Credit Union
Stanford Federal Credit Union (or Stanford FCU) is a federally chartered credit union located in Palo Alto, California.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Strategic planning
Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to attain strategic goals.
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Streaming media
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network. Internet and Streaming media are promotion and marketing communications.
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Streaming television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as television series and films, streamed over the Internet. Internet and Streaming television are new media.
See Internet and Streaming television
Submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
See Internet and Submarine communications cable
Subnet
A subnetwork, or subnet, is a logical subdivision of an IP network.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. Internet and supercomputer are American inventions.
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Supply chain
A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers.
Supply chain management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished products and delivered to their end customers.
See Internet and Supply chain management
Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating systems.
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System administrator
An IT administrator, system administrator, sysadmin, or admin is a person who is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers.
See Internet and System administrator
Taschen
Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany.
Telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication. Internet and Telecommunications are mass media technology.
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Telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. Internet and telephone are American inventions.
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Internet and Television are American inventions, digital technology and telecommunications.
Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
The Shift Project
The Shift Project (also called The Shift or TSP) is a French nonprofit created in 2010 that aims to limit both climate change and the dependency of our economy on fossil fuels.
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Tier 1 network
A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection (also known as settlement-free peering).
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Tier 2 network
A Tier 2 network is an Internet service provider which engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but which also purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
See Internet and Tim Berners-Lee
Time-sharing
In computing, time-sharing is the concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each task or user a small slice of processing time.
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Traffic analysis
Traffic analysis is the process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication. Internet and Traffic analysis are telecommunications.
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Transport layer
In computer networking, the transport layer is a conceptual division of methods in the layered architecture of protocols in the network stack in the Internet protocol suite and the OSI model.
See Internet and Transport layer
Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.
Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly referred to as Uber, is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.
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United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States.
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University College London
University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
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University of Illinois Chicago
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
UUCP
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
Value chain
A value chain is a progression of activities that a business or firm performs in order to deliver goods and services of value to an end customer.
Video clip
Video clips refer to mostly short videos, which are usually silly jokes and funny clips, often from movies or entertainment videos such as those on YouTube.
Video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request. Internet and video on demand are new media.
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Videotelephony
Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf (born 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn.
Viral marketing
Viral marketing is a business strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product mainly on various social media platforms. Internet and Viral marketing are promotion and marketing communications.
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Virtual community
A virtual community is a social work of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Internet and virtual community are virtual reality.
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Virtual private network
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).
See Internet and Virtual private network
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
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Walkie-talkie
A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver (HT), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
Web application
A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser.
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Web banner
A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server.
Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Web feed
On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.
Web page
A web page (or webpage) is a document on the Web that is accessed in a web browser.
Web resource
A web resource is any identifiable resource (digital, physical, or abstract) present on or connected to the World Wide Web.
Web server
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.
Web service
A web service (WS) is either.
Webcam
A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network.
Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers.
Website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
Wi-Fi hotspot
A hotspot is a physical location where people can obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local-area network (WLAN) using a router connected to an Internet service provider.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
Wikipedia Zero
Wikipedia Zero was a project by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide access to Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones via zero-rating, particularly in developing markets.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Wireless
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (telecommunication) between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer.
Wireless community network
Wireless community networks or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are non-centralized, self-managed and collaborative networks organized in a grassroots fashion by communities, non-governmental organizations and cooperatives in order to provide a viable alternative to municipal wireless networks for consumers.
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Wireless network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
See Internet and Wireless network
World language
In linguistics, a world language (sometimes global language, rarely international language) is a language that is geographically widespread and makes it possible for members of different language communities to communicate. Internet and world language are cultural globalization.
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World population
In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. Internet and world population are cultural globalization.
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World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. Internet and World Wide Web are computer-related introductions in 1989 and cultural globalization.
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WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor.
Writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain.
X.25
X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet-switched data communication in wide area networks (WAN).
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.
See Internet and Yahoo! Search
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zero-rating
Zero-rating is the practice of providing Internet access without financial cost under certain conditions, such as by permitting access to only certain websites or by subsidizing the service with advertising or by exempting certain websites from the data allowance.
2008 submarine cable disruption
The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world.
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2011 Egyptian revolution
The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (translit), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt.
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32-bit computing
In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.
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3G
3G is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.
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4G
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G and preceding 5G.
See Internet and 4G
See also
Computer-related introductions in 1969
- ACM SIGGRAPH
- ARPANET
- CDC 7600
- Data General Nova
- Internet
- JIS X 0201
- Lockheed MAC-16
- Mousepad
- PDP-12
- Relational database
- Request for Comments
- Telnet
Main topic articles
- Academic discipline
- Business
- Communication
- Concept
- Culture
- Economy
- Education
- Energy
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Entity
- Ethics
- Geography
- Government
- Health
- History
- Human behavior
- Humanities
- Information
- Internet
- Knowledge
- Language
- Law
- Life
- List
- Mass media
- Mathematics
- Military
- Nature
- Person
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Religion
- Science
- Society
- Sport
- Technology
- Time
- Universe
Transport systems
- Autobahn
- Automated vacuum collection
- ET3 Global Alliance
- Expressways of Japan
- Hyperloop
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Internet
- Interstate Highway System
- List of national highways of Japan
- Magway Ltd
- Modal share
- Mother ship
- National highways of Japan
- Onboard passenger information system
- Railways in Sardinia
- Trains
- Transmetro (Barranquilla)
- Transport network analysis
References
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, Chatham House, Chicago, Child pornography, Classless Inter-Domain Routing, Client–server model, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Coaxial cable, Collaboration, Collaborative software, Colombia, Commercial Internet eXchange, Commercialization of the Internet, Communication protocol, Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, CompuServe, Computer, Computer file, Computer graphics, Computer literacy, Computer network, Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing, Computer science, Computer security, Computer virus, Computer worm, Conference call, Consolidation (business), Content delivery network, Content management, Cooperative banking, Cornell University, Cost, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, CSNET, Customer, Cyberbullying, Cybercrime, Cybersectarianism, Cyberspace, Cyberwarfare, CYCLADES, Darknet, DARPA, Data (computer science), Data card, Data center, Data communication, Data mining, Debkafile, Deep web, Default gateway, Default route, Denial-of-service attack, Digital citizen, Digital display advertising, Digital divide, Digital economy, Digital media use and mental health, Digital music store, Digital signature, Digital subscriber line, Distance education, DNS root zone, Document, Domain name, Domain Name System, Donald Davies, DonorsChoose, Dot-decimal notation, Doxing, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Dynamic web page, E-commerce, E-commerce payment system, E-government, Earth, Economic inequality, Edholm's law, Education, Electric energy consumption, Electric power distribution, Electronic business, Email, Email address, Email attachment, Employment, Encryption, Energy consumption, English Wikipedia, Entrepreneurship, Ethernet, Europe, Facebook, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Feminism, Fiber-optic cable, File server, File sharing, File Transfer Protocol, Financial institution, Financial services, Firefox, First-person shooter, Flickr, Fragmentation (computing), France, Free software movement, Fully qualified domain name, Game, GameSpy Arcade, GÉANT, GCHQ, Gen Digital, Georgia Tech, Ghana, Global network, Global North and Global South, GlobalGiving, GLORIAD, Goldbricking, Google, Google Chrome, Google Scholar, Google Search, Grant writing, Grassroots, Hacker, Handheld game console, Harassment, Hate speech, Hertz Global Holdings, Hilton Worldwide, Homework, Homogeneity and heterogeneity, Host (network), Howard Dean, HTML, HTML editor, HTTP, Hyperlink, Hypertext, Hyphanet, I am lonely will anyone speak to me, ICANN, Income distribution, Index of Internet-related articles, Informal education, Information and communications technology, Information Awareness Office, Information Processing Techniques Office, Instant messaging, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Interactive kiosk, Interference theory, International Data Group, International Network Working Group, International Telecommunication Union, Internet access, Internet activism, Internet addiction disorder, Internet Architecture Board, Internet café, Internet censorship, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet exchange point, Internet Explorer, Internet filter, Internet forum, Internet Governance Forum, Internet in Egypt, Internet industry jargon, Internet layer, Internet metaphors, Internet outage, Internet pornography, Internet Protocol, Internet protocol suite, Internet research, Internet Research Task Force, Internet service provider, Internet Society, Internet Standard, Internet traffic, Internet transit, Internet video, Internet2, Internets, Internetworking, Intranet, IP address, IP routing, IPv4, IPv4 address exhaustion, IPv6, IPv6 deployment, Iran, IRC, Islamic State, J. C. R. Licklider, JANET, Jürgen Habermas, Jon Postel, Kenya, Kilowatt-hour, Kiva (organization), LACNIC, Languages used on the Internet, Laptop, Laser, Latin alphabet, Latin America, Leased line, LibreOffice, Lifewire, Lingua franca, Link layer, LinkedIn, Linux, List of countries by number of Internet users, London, Louis Pouzin, Malware, Marketing, Mashable, Mask (computing), Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MCI Mail, MD5, Merit Network, Microfinance, Microsoft, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Edge, Middle East, Ministry of Intelligence (Iran), Mirror site, Mobile advertising, Mobile app, Mobile broadband, Mobile broadband modem, Mobile device, Mobile Internet device, Mobile telephony, Mobile web, Modem, Mojibake, MOO, Moore's law, MOSFET, Mozilla, MPlayer.com, Multi-user dungeon, Multihoming, Multimedia, Multiplayer video game, Myanmar, Namespace, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), National research and education network, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation Network, National Security Agency, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Netizen, Network service, New York City, News aggregator, Nicholas G. Carr, Nigeria, Node (networking), Noise (signal processing), Nokia, NORSAR, North America, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, NPL network, Online advertising, Online chat, Online disinhibition effect, Online gambling, Online participation, Online shopping, Online university, OP Financial Group, OpenOffice.org, Opera (web browser), Optical fiber, Optical networking, Optical transistor, Orange S.A., Organization, Outline of the Internet, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Pacific Ocean, Packet analyzer, Packet capture appliance, Packet switching, Panama Canal, Paul Baran, Payphone, Peer-to-peer, Peer-to-peer lending, Peering, Pen pal, Personal computer, Personal data, Personal digital assistant, Peter T. Kirstein, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Plain text, Podcast, Portable media player, Postal, telegraph and telephone service, Prior art, Private network, Productivity software, Promotion (marketing), Proper noun, Psychological effects of Internet use, Public data network, Public relations, Public service, Public sphere, Publishing, Queens, Radio, RAND Corporation, Ransomware, Raytheon BBN, Reddit, Regional Internet registry, Remote Desktop Protocol, Remote work, Request for Comments, Ricochet (Internet service), RIPE, RIPE NCC, Robert Kahn (computer scientist), Role-playing video game, Router (computing), Routing protocol, Routing table, Safari (web browser), Sales, San Francisco, Satellite Internet access, Saudi Arabia, Science (journal), Screenshot, Search engine, Search engine marketing, Search engine optimization, Semiconductor, Server (computing), Sexual grooming, Shared resource, Siemens, Small business, Smartphone, Social experiment, Social media, Social networking service, Social peer-to-peer processes, Sociology of the Internet, South Africa, Spamming, Spyware, SRI International, Stanford Federal Credit Union, Stanford University, Strategic planning, Streaming media, Streaming television, Submarine communications cable, Subnet, Supercomputer, Supply chain, Supply chain management, Symbol, Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, System administrator, Taschen, Telecommunications, Telephone, Television, Terrorism, The New York Times, The Register, The Shift Project, Tier 1 network, Tier 2 network, Tim Berners-Lee, Time-sharing, Toronto, Traffic analysis, Transport layer, Tunis, Uber, Unicode, Uniform Resource Identifier, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Department of Commerce, United States Department of Defense, United States Patent and Trademark Office, University College London, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Utah, URL, USA Today, Usenet, UUCP, Value chain, Video clip, Video on demand, Videotelephony, Vienna, Vint Cerf, Viral marketing, Virtual community, Virtual private network, Voice over IP, Walkie-talkie, Watt, Web application, Web banner, Web browser, Web feed, Web page, Web resource, Web server, Web service, Webcam, Webcast, Website, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wiki, Wikipedia Zero, Wiley (publisher), Wireless, Wireless community network, Wireless network, World language, World population, World Summit on the Information Society, World Wide Web, WorldWideWeb, Writer, X.25, Yahoo! Search, YouTube, Zero-rating, 2008 submarine cable disruption, 2011 Egyptian revolution, 32-bit computing, 3G, 4G.