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. (Full article...) Selected article Delrina was a Canadian software company based in Toronto, that existed between 1988 and 1995, prior to being bought by the American software firm Symantec. Delrina started out by producing a set of electronic form products known as PerForm and later, FormFlow. However, the company was best known for its WinFax software package of the early- to mid-1990s, which enabled computers equipped with fax-modems to communicate faxes to stand-alone fax machines or other similarly-equipped computers. Delrina also produced a set of popular screensavers, including one that resulted in the well-publicized "flying toasters" lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringement (Berkeley Systems Inc. v. Delrina); the case set a precedent in American law that satiric commercial software products were not subject to the same First Amendment exemptions as parodic cartoons or literature. After the buyout by Symantec in 1995, parts of the firm were sold off, while Symantec continues to sell the WinFax product to this day. In its wake, several of Delrina's former executives founded venture capital firms that continue to have a lasting impact on the Canadian software industry. Selected picture A wireless LAN or WLAN is a wireless local area network, which is the linking of two or more computers without using wires. WLAN utilizes spread-spectrum or OFDM modulation technology based on radio waves to enable communication between devices in a limited area, also known as the basic service set. This gives users the mobility to move around within a broad coverage area and still be connected to the network. 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 at Wikinews WikiProjects Main project: WikiProject Internet Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture Did you know (auto-generated) - ... that Silvia Bottini, the face of the "First World Problems" meme, has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid? ... that scientist KC Claffy was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for her work on measuring the Internet? ... that Meme Man is used in many surreal memes, a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism? ... that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary "woke culture"? ... that a pro-EU explanation of how Baileys is made, given by British MP Mike Gapes, was described as being "infinitely memeable" and giving him a "bizarre online infamy"? ... that David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet? Selected biography Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) was president and CEO of Marimba, Inc. from 1996 until July 2000, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans". Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems working as a Java product manager, before embarking on Marimba's Java-based business. Before joining Sun, she worked at IntelliCorp Inc. As of September 2004, Polese is CEO of SpikeSource, a provider of business-ready open source solutions. The company was incubated in 2003 at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers by Ray Lane, and launched its first products in April 2005. Polese serves on the boards of Technorati, Inc., the Global Security Institute, and the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation. Polese is a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Engineered Innovation. She received a BA degree in biophysics in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington. General images - The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia. 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) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) 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) 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) Map of the TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (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 Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) Google's "Knowledge Panel" this is how information from the Knowledge Graph is presented to users. (from History of the Internet) Internet Connectivity Access layer (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) 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 Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004. Stamp of Azerbaijan, 2004. (from History of the Internet) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet) Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–present Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (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) Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access) BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986. (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) First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet) Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access) T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (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 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 Bulletproof hosting .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! 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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 Safari (web browser) The Social Network Spotify Wrapped Twitter Vcash World Enough and Time (Star Trek: New Voyages) Good topics Norid Featured pictures Internet map 1024 Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer, January 1984, by Bernard Gotfryd - edited Featured portals Portal:Internet 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 Email 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 Videotelephony 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. 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