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 that enabled the 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 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 The Signpost (formerly The Wikipedia Signpost) is the Wikimedia movement's online newspaper. Managed by the volunteer community, it is published online with contributions from Wikimedia editors. The newspaper's scope includes the Wikimedia community and events related to Wikipedia, including Arbitration Committee rulings, Wikimedia Foundation issues, and other Wikipedia-related projects. It was founded in January 2005 by Wikipedian Michael Snow, who continued as a contributor until his February 2008 appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. Former editor-in-chief The ed17 noted that during his tenure, from 2012 to 2015, the publication expanded its scope to report on the wider Wikimedia movement in addition to Wikipedia and its community. After it reported on the changes to European freedom of panorama law in June 2015, a number of publications referred to The Signpost for further information. (Full article...) Selected picture Map of Seattle's Wi-Fi nodes 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 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 David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet? ... 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 Kraft Heinz was "intrigued" by the fake product image of Mayoreo that became an Internet meme in June 2021? ... that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces? ... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive? ... that Davide Soliani, the creator of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, became an Internet meme for crying on stage? Selected biography Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard College student he founded the online social networking service Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard student and computer science major Andrew McCollum as well as roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He now serves as Facebook's CEO. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. It quickly became a success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school's students signed up in the first two weeks. Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools and enlisted the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it to Stanford, Columbia and Yale and then to other Ivy League colleges and schools in the Boston area. By the beginning of the summer, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had released Facebook at almost 30 schools. Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California with Moskovitz and some friends during the summer of 2004. They leased a small house which served as their first office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. Today, the company has four buildings in downtown Palo Alto. General images - The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia. Where the WEB was born (from History of the World Wide Web) 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) Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 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) Satellite Internet access via VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access) First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet) 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) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 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) Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access) Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access) 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) The "message block", designed by Paul Baran in 1962 and refined in 1964, is the first proposal of a data packet. (from History of the Internet) Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access) Internet users in 2023 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) 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) 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) 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) Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet) Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012 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) Selected quote More Did you know... ... that Erik Möller (pictured), Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons? ...that Egg Banking plc is now the world's largest "pure" Internet bank, meaning it's only accessible from the Internet? ... that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction? 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 This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). 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