Portal:Internet

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The Internet Portal Internet Archive servers The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to research to enable time-sharing of computer resources and the development of packet switching in the 1960s. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States and in the United Kingdom and France. The ARPANET initially served as a backbone for the interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the United States to enable resource sharing. The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, encouraged worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and the merger of many networks using DARPA's Internet protocol suite. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s, as well as the advent of the World Wide Web, marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet, and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was widely used by academia in the 1980s, the subsequent commercialization in the 1990s and beyond incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life. (Full article...) Selected article Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. The plot of cyberpunk writing often centers on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and mega corporations, tending to be set within a near-future dystopian Earth, rather than the "outer space" locales prevalent at the time of cyberpunk's inception. Much of the genre's "atmosphere" echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction. While this gritty, hard-hitting style was hailed as revolutionary during cyberpunk's early days, later observers concluded that in terms of literature, most cyberpunk narrative techniques were less innovative than those of the New Wave, twenty years earlier. Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley and Rudy Rucker. The term became widespread in the 1980s and remains current today. Selected picture ICE 3 high-speed train with Hotspot advertisements A hotspot is a venue that offers Wi-Fi access. The public can use a laptop, WiFi phone, or other suitable portable device to access the Internet. Of the estimated 150 million laptops, 14 million PDAs, and other emerging Wi-Fi devices sold per year for the last few years, most include the Wi-Fi feature. News Wikinews Internet portal Further information: Timeline of computing 2020-present § 2024 July 5: Ransomware attack hits over 200 US companies, forces Swedish grocery chain to close July 31: "Avast ye scurvy file sharers!": Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge October 6: European Court of Justice says Facebook must remove 'illegal' posts globally September 22: Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence April 8: 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet December 23: UK police locate missing Chinese teen Mei Chen, silent on details October 29: Technology giant Microsoft completes acquisition of GitHub More at Wikinews WikiProjects Main project: WikiProject Internet Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture Did you know (auto-generated) - ... that Davide Soliani, the creator of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, became an Internet meme for crying on stage? ... that Alexandra Hunt, a former stripper, opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives? ... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive? ... that social media influencer Andrew Tate described himself as "absolutely a misogynist"? ... that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff? ... that since 2018, IKEA's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community? Selected biography Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. After early work in psychoacoustics, he became interested in information technology early in his career. Much like Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider's contribution to the development of the Internet consists of ideas, not inventions. He foresaw the need for networked computers with easy user interfaces. His ideas foretold of graphical computing, point-and-click interfaces, digital libraries, e-commerce, online banking, and software that would exist on a network and migrate wherever it was needed. Licklider was instrumental in conceiving, funding and managing the research that led to modern personal computers and the Internet. His seminal paper on Man-Computer Symbiosis foreshadowed interactive computing, and he went on to fund early efforts in time-sharing and application development, most notably the work of Douglas Engelbart, who founded the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute and created the famous On-Line System. He played a similar role in conceiving of and funding early networking research, most notably the ARPAnet. General images - The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia. Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) Where the WEB was born (from History of the World Wide Web) Broadband affordability in 2011 This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from Internet access) Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access) Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Abramatic, and Tim Berners-Lee at the tenth anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (from History of the World Wide Web) Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access) Satellite Internet access via VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access) Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) Internet users in 2023 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019 Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (from History of the Internet) Stamped envelope of Russian Post issued in 1993 with stamp and graphics dedicated to first Russian underwater digital optic cable laid in 1993 by Rostelecom from Kingisepp to Copenhagen (from History of the Internet) Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from History of the Internet) The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN (from History of the World Wide Web) 1997 advertisement in State Magazine by the US State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamiliar Web (from History of the World Wide Web) First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet) Map of the TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from History of the Internet) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) The NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. (from History of the World Wide Web) Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet) The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from Internet access) BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from History of the Internet) Selected quote More Did you know... ...that Senator Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol (Capitol pictured)? ...that poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India's first Internet cafe in 1996? ...that Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts? Main topics Internet Articles Application layer ARPANET Blog Browsers CERN Collaborative software Computer file Computer network Computer networking DARPA Data (computing) Electronic commerce E-mail English on the Internet FidoNet File sharing History of the Internet HTML HyperCard Hyperlink ICANN Instant messaging Internet access Internet capitalization conventions Internet censorship Internet Control Message Protocol Internet democracy Internet Exchange Point Internet Governance Forum Internet privacy Internet Protocol Internet protocols Internet research Internetworking Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Mosaic (web browser) National Center for Supercomputing Applications Net neutrality Online chat Peering Remote access Transmission Control Protocol Scale-free network Search engine Security Social network service Unicode Uniform resource locator User agent User Datagram Protocol ViolaWWW Virtual private network VoIP Web browser Web resource Web service Wide area network World Summit on the Information Society World Wide Web Lists List of basic Internet topics List of Internet topics Academic databases and search engines List of blogging terms List of HTTP headers List of HTTP status codes List of IP protocol numbers List of journals available free online List of IPv6 tunnel brokers List of PHP editors List of organizations with .INT domain names List of social networking websites List of newsgroups Comp.* hierarchy Sci.* hierarchy List of RFCs List of search engines List of virtual communities List of web directories List of webcomics List of websites founded before 1995 Featured content Extended content Featured articles From the Doctor to My Son Thomas Gurl.com The Million Dollar Homepage Good articles Alt attribute Alt-right pipeline Arena (web browser) Beyond the First Amendment Jeff Bezos Bomis Bulletproof hosting .bv Community Notes Cookie stuffing Cow Clicker Cross-site leaks Cyber Rights DNS Certification Authority Authorization DeepStateMap.Live Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Fucking Machines Google Earth Hightail ILoo Internet meme Me at the zoo Microsoft v. 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Molly White (writer) The Wiccan Web Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic World Enough and Time (Star Trek: New Voyages) Yahoo! data breaches YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind Good topics Norid Featured pictures Internet map 1024 Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer, January 1984, by Bernard Gotfryd - edited Featured portals Portal:Internet Categories Category puzzle Select [►] to view subcategories Internet Internet by continent Internet by country Internet-related lists Internet access Internet architecture Internet broadcasting Internet culture Internet databases Email Internet events Internet governance History of the Internet Internet hosting Hypermedia Internet Geographic information systems Internet law Multimedia Online algorithms Internet-related organizations People related to the internet Internet security Internet Standards Internet terminology Videotelephony Works about the Internet World Wide Web Internet stubs Related portals Things you can do Things you can do Place the {{WikiProject Internet}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. 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