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edit   The Internet Portal The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. A computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast number of servers and other computers. An Internet connection also allows the computer to send information onto the network; that information may be saved and ultimately accessed by a variety of servers and other computers. Much of the widely accessible information on the Internet consists of the interlinked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). Web users typically send and receive information using a web browser; other software for interacting with computer networks includes specialized programs for electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing. Information is moved around the Internet by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. edit   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. edit   Selected picture Leet (written 31337, 1337, and l33t), or Leetspeak, is a written argot used primarily on the Internet, which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of shorthand. edit   News Wikinews Internet portal February 7: Santorum neologism gains prominence during US election cycle January 29: Twitter to allow censorship of posts on a country by country basis January 28: Wikinews Shorts: January 28, 2012 January 20: U.S. Congressman Jason Altmire comes out against SOPA January 19: US government, music industry websites taken offline in web attack January 18: Wikinews interviews Sue Gardner on Wikipedia blackout January 17: Online retailer Zappos.com hit by hackers More... edit   WikiProjects Main project: WikiProject Internet Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture What are WikiProjects? edit   Selected biography Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Mike Sendall, Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). edit   Did you know... ... that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek (creek pictured) drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website? ... that sociology of the Internet is one of newly emerged branches of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and public sphere? ... that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers? edit   Categories ▼ Internet ► Internet by continent ► Internet by country ► Internet-related lists ► Internet access ► Internet advertising and promotion ► Internet architecture ► Internet broadcasting ► Change detection and notification ► Internet companies ► Internet culture ► Cyberspace ► Internet databases ► Internet governance ► History of the Internet ► Internet hosting ► Internet hoaxes ► Internet of Things ► Mobile Web ► Online companies ► Online education ► Internet privacy ► Internet standards ► Internet terminology ► Web 1.0 ► Web Science ► World Wide Web ► Wikipedia books on Internet ► Internet stubs ► Internet portal edit   Selected quote edit   Featured content Featured articles Acid2 Opera (web browser) Search engine optimization Good articles Arena (web browser) Beyond the First Amendment .bv Cyber Rights Drupal Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Google ILoo Kaycee Nicole Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft Münchausen by Internet Norid On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog PHP .sj Twitter YouTube edit   Things you can do Place the {{WikiProject Internet}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. Cleanup: Blog, Moblog, Podcasting Rate the Unassessed Internet articles in the Internet WikiProject. Requested articles: Chelsio Communications, Illinois Bio-Grid, More... Stubs: Domain names, Internet broadcasting, Internet publication, Websites, World Wide Web, Computer networks, More... edit   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 • Resource (Web) • Transmission Control Protocol • Scale-free network • Search engine • Social network service • Unicode • Uniform Resource Locator • User agent • User Datagram Protocol • ViolaWWW • Virtual private network • VoIP • Web browser • Web operating system • 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 edit   Related portals Apple Inc. 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