Internet Definition–noun | a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually prec. by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols. |
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a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer networks around the world to interconnect. Sometimes referred to as a "network of ...
Internet Retailing
In 1998 consumers could purchase virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, computers, stocks, and even new and used automobiles were widely available from World Wide Web sites that ...
ProMED-mail: Reporting Outbreaks on the Internet
Ebola, hantaviruses, toxic Escherichia coli, flesh-eating bacteria, chicken flu. The world needs to know about outbreaks of these and other potentially virulent "emerging diseases" as soon as they ...
Invasion of Privacy on the Internet
In the year 2000 concerns about privacy in cyberspace became an issue of international debate. As reading and writing, health care and shopping, and sex and gossip increasingly took place in ...
Genealogy Takes Root on the Internet
By 2003 the number of people who had discovered the benefit of using the Internet to research their ancestry had increased dramatically. Many Web sites provide access to databases containing indexes ...
ICANN
nonprofit private organization incorporated in California on Sept. 18, 1998, and tasked with taking over from the U.S. government various administrative duties associated with running the Internet. ...
Computers and Information Systems
The Internet continued to grow and attract more attention during the year. While the growth rate slowed somewhat--to about 80% from 100% a year--some experts predicted there might be 200 million ...
Computers and Information Systems
It was the year of the Internet's World Wide Web, which by the end of 1996 had so permeated the public's consciousness that even nontechnical adults were likely to speak of the "Net" and the "Web." ...
Computers and Information Systems
The adoption rate for broadband Internet access-primarily cable modem and digital subscriber line (DSL)-slowed, largely as a result of the depressed economy. A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers in June ...
Computers and Information Systems
Despite growing demand for high-speed Internet service, the declining economy effectively reduced the number of competitors, and the DSL service was left largely in the hands of the former regional ...
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