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 inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s. The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s 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, commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life. The Internet has no single centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies. The overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address (IP address) space and the Domain Name System (DNS), are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise. In November 2006, the Internet was included on USA Today's list of New Seven Wonders. (Full article...) Selected article The logo of Wireless Minneapolis The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is covered by a citywide broadband wireless internet network, sometimes called Wireless Minneapolis. The network was first proposed in 2003, at which point only a few other cities nationwide had such systems in place. Local firm US Internet beat out EarthLink to build and operate the network, with a guaranteed ten-year, multimillion-dollar contract from the city itself as the network's anchor tenant. Construction began on the project in 2006, but encountered several delays. Most of the city was covered by the network by 2010, and USI Wireless, the subsidiary of US Internet responsible for the system, set up numerous free internet access points at public locations around Minneapolis. The network, which offers speeds of one to six megabits per second at a rate of about $20 per month, had about 20,000 residential subscribers by the end of 2010. Municipally, the network is used by city inspectors and employees, with plans in place for the police and fire departments to use it in the future. In 2007, when the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed, the wireless system helped coordinate rescuers and emergency services. The city and USI Wireless have won praise for the network, which has been singled out for being one of the few successful municipal wireless ventures nationwide among a number of stalled or failed projects. (Full article...) Selected picture Metropolitan area networks, or MANs, are large computer networks usually spanning a city. They typically use wireless infrastructure or Optical fiber connections to link their sites. News Wikinews Internet portal 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... WikiProjects Main project: WikiProject Internet Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture What are WikiProjects? Selected biography Sergey Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States, together with Larry Page. He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Brin received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which allowed him to study for his master's degree in computer science at Stanford University. Brin received his master's degree in August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. Although he is still enrolled in the Stanford doctoral program, Brin has suspended his Ph.D. studies indefinitely while he is working at Google. Brin met Larry Page while they were both graduate students at Stanford, and they authored a paper together entitled a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine." Did you know... ...that through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup, Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski (pictured) is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the Internet, and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work? ...that the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet? ...that F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the Internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992? General images - The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia. The NeXTcube used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. (from History of the World Wide Web) 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004. Stamp of Azerbaijan, 2004. (from History of the Internet) Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access) First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet) BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986. (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) Google's "Knowledge Panel" this is how information from the Knowledge Graph is presented to users. (from History of the Internet) Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–present Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (from History of the Internet) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from Internet access) 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) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from History of the Internet) Satellite Internet access via VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access) Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from Internet access) 1997 advertisement in State Magazine by the US State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamliar Web (from History of the Internet) Map of the TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from History of the Internet) T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from History of the Internet) Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access) Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Abramatic and Tim Berners-Lee at the 10th anniversary of the WWW Consortium. (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) This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server. (from History of the Internet) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from History of the Internet) Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from History of the Internet) Center (from History of the World Wide Web) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunications Union. (from Internet access) Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access) Selected quote Featured content Featured articles Digital media use and mental health From the Doctor to My Son Thomas The Million Dollar Homepage Good articles Arena (web browser) Beyond the First Amendment Jeff Bezos Bomis .bv Cow Clicker Cyber Rights DNS Certification Authority Authorization Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Fucking Machines Google Earth Gurl.com Hightail ILoo Marketing for Wario Land: Shake It! Microsoft v. MikeRoweSoft Minneapolis wireless internet network .no Mikey Neumann Kaycee Nicole Norid On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog PHP Place (Reddit) The Plot to Hack America Ralph Breaks the Internet SCP Foundation .sj The Social Network Twitter Uniform Resource Identifier Vcash World Enough and Time (Star Trek: New Voyages) Good topics Norid Featured pictures Internet map 1024 Featured portals Portal:Internet 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 Categories Select [►] to view subcategories Internet Internet by continent Internet by country Internet-related lists Internet access Internet architecture Internet broadcasting Internet culture Internet databases Internet events Internet geolocation Internet governance History of the Internet Internet hosting Hypermedia Internet law Multimedia Internet-related organizations Internet people Internet security Internet Standards Internet terminology Works about the Internet World Wide Web Internet stubs Related portals Amiga Computer programming Free software Modern history Technology Telecommunication Things you can do Place the {{WikiProject Internet}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. Cleanup: Rate the Unassessed Internet articles in the Internet WikiProject. Requested articles: Illinois Bio-Grid, More... Stubs: Domain names, Internet broadcasting, Internet publication, Websites, World Wide Web, Computer networks, More... Associated Wikimedia Wikipedia's portals Portals Activities Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Random portal