Internet/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. ^[e]
• Telecommunications [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Domain Name System [r]: The Internet service which translates to and from IP addresses and domain names. ^[e]
• Email [r]: A method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ^[e]
• Internet Protocol [r]: Highly resilient protocol for messages sent across the internet, first by being broken into smaller packets (each with the endpoint address attached), then moving among many mid-points by unpredictable routes, and finally being reassembled into the original message at the endpoint. IP version 4 (IPv4) is from 1980 but lacked enough addresses for the entire world and was superseded by IP version 6 (IPv6) in 1998. ^[e]
• Internet Protocol Suite [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Internet Protocol version 4 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Internet Protocol version 6 [r]: The next-generation Internet Protocol, providing (among other benefits) a vastly increased address space (128bits), which should in turn provide the ability for an end-to-end Internet and allowing new models of communication to be developed. ^[e]
• Gopher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Transmission Control Protocol [r]: (TCP) A protocol that reliably delivers bytes across an internet. As long as the connection is up, bytes will be delivered without bit errors and in the order they were sent. It does not guarantee latency. ^[e]
• User Datagram Protocol [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Usenet [r]: Distributed online discussion system. ^[e]
• Wiki [r]: A website that allows anyone (with registration required or not) to edit any page and to add new pages. ^[e]
• World Wide Web [r]: A global collection of information presented in the form of documents hosted on networked computers and available to the public. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Abilene [r]: Add brief definition or description
• ARPANET [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Computer network [r]: A collection of computers or digital devices ("nodes") connected by communication links. ^[e]
• Internet2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• JWICS [r]: A military and intelligence communications system approved for classified information designated collateral TOP SECRET, as well as any information in a compartmented control system such as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP) ^[e]
• NIPRNET [r]: The common user network intended to carry U.S. military "sensitive but unclassified" traffic for military personnel, government employees, military contractors, and approved allies ^[e]
• NSFNET [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SIPRNET [r]: The shared United States Department of Defense network that carries the bulk of classified information, limited to a security classification of SECRET. ^[e]
• Warfighter Information Network [r]: Add brief definition or description
• X.25 [r]: Add brief definition or description