Portal:Internet

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The Internet Portal

An Internet kiosk

The Internet, sometimes called the "Information Superhighway," is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).

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Red vs Blue is a science fiction comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series is produced primarily by using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from computer and video games to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is taken mostly from the multiplayer modes of the first-person shooter (FPS) video games Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 on the Xbox video game console. Chronicling the story of two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon, the series is an absurdist parody of FPS games, military life, and other science fiction films. Begun in 2003 and having concluded its fourth season, Red vs Blue has won four awards from the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences. The series is generally praised for its originality, and has been credited with bringing new popularity to machinima, helping it to gain more mainstream exposure, and attracting more people to the art form.

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Map of Seattle's Wi-Fi nodes
Credit: Seattle WiFi Map Project, Maps

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.

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Vint Cerf in 2007
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Cerf's first job after getting his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM, where he worked for less than two years as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN. He left IBM to become a principal programmer at UCLA; he then became an assistant professor at Stanford University where he co-designed the Department of Defense TCP/IP protocol suite with Robert E. Kahn. Cerf joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999, and is serving a term until the end of 2007; he previously served as the ICANN Chair.
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Main project: WikiProject Internet

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Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture

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Mike Godwin
Cyberspace may give freedom of speech more muscle than the First Amendment does. It may already have become literally impossible for a government to shut people up.
— Mike Godwin, 1994
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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 commercial voice over IP network providers • List of FTP commands • List of FTP server return codes • List of HTTP headers • List of HTTP status codes • List of IPv4 protocol numbers • List of Internet slang specific to thread-based communication • List of journals available free online • List of IPv6 tunnel brokers • List of PHP editors • List of organizations with .INT domain names • List of pastebins • 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

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