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The Internet Portal

An Internet kiosk

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.

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Sign at the Googleplex
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet search and online advertising. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and has 15,916 full-time employees (as of September 30, 2007). Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others. In 2006, "google" came in second on Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year.
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An example of emoticon from a bookstore in Seoul.
Credit: PuzzletChung

A portmanteau of emotion (or emote) and icon, an emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form.

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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 FTP commands • List of FTP server return codes • 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

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