Internet

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The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale. — Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

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Introduction1

Code.org (YouTube Channel)
Code.org (Official Website)

How The Internet Works (Code.org, YouTube Playlist)

Dictionary

internet : an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world — Merriam-Webster   See also OneLook

Internet (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email. — Wikipedia

Internet (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Outline

Outline of the Internet (Wikipedia)

Search

Internet (WolframAlpha)

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Adventures

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Inspiration

Seeing the Internet in Real Life (The New York Times, YouTube 360° Video)

Talks about the Internet (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about the Internet (Big Think)

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Innovation

Technology

TED-Ed (YouTube Channel)
TEDEd (Official Website)

The Hidden Network That Makes the Internet Possible (Sajan Saini, TED-Ed)

How Does the Internet Work? (Rus Shuler)

Commerce

Entrepreneurship

Internet Campaigns (Kickstarter)

Product

Internet Items (Etsy)
Internet Gifts (Zazzle)

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Preservation

History

History of the Internet Series (SciShow, YouTube Playlist)

Brief History of the Internet (Internet Society)
Computer Networks (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)

Biography

Internet Hall of Fame (Internet Archive)

Museum

Internet History 1962 to 1992 (Computer History Museum)
Networking: Connecting Computers (Computer History Museum)
Inventing the Internet (Computer History Museum)
The Internet Comes From Behind (Computer History Museum)

Archive

Internet Archive (Official Website)
Internet Archive (Wikipedia)

Library

DDC: 004.678 Internet (Library Thing)
DDC: 384.3 Internet (Library Thing)
Subject: Internet (Library Thing)

Subject: Internet (Open Library)

LCC: TK 5105.875.I57 Internet (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: TK 5105.875.I57 Internet (Library of Congress)
Subject: Internet (Library of Congress)

Subject: Internet (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

Computer Networks (Crash Course Computer Science, YouTube Video)
The Internet (Crash Course Computer Science, YouTube Video)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Course

Introduction to Computer Networking (Nick McKeown and Philip Levis, Stanford)

Internet Courses (edX)

Community

Occupation

CareerOneStop, YouTube Channel (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
CareerOneStop, Official Website (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

Computer Network Architects (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

CareerOneStop, YouTube Channel (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
CareerOneStop, Official Website (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

Network and Computer Systems Administrators (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

Organization

Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Society
Association of Internet Researchers
IEEE Internet Initiative
ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM)

News

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
ACM Computer Communications Review (ACM SIGCOMM)
Newsroom (Internet Society)

Internet (JSTOR)
Internet (Science Daily)


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Related

Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.

Media

Function Communications Computation Storage Creation Simulation
Analog Mail Device Paper Type, Print Automaton
Electronic Network Calculator Tape Record Elektro
Digital Internet Computer
Hardware Modem Microprocessor Memory Peripheral Robot, XR
Software Service (Web) Program (OS, SS) Database Application AI, VW

Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“

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Notes

1.   The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.