Internet

This article is about the Internet, the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term informally used to describe any set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking.

External links

General

• The Internet Society (ISOC)
• Internet Dictionary - Definitions of Internet-related terms
• Welcome to the Internet - A Newcomer's Guide
• The Alternate Internet Glossary (Humor)
• Internet access stats
• Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms
• Internet Health Report from Keynote

Articles

• "10 Years that changed the world" - WiReD looks back at the evolution of the Internet over last 10 years
• John Walker: The Digital Imprimatur
• addressingtheworld.info - website accompanying a book (ISBN 0742528103) on the history of DNS
• How Stuff Works explanation of the Infrastructure of the Internet
• "It's Just the 'internet' Now" - Wired.com article by Tony Long

History

• The Internet Society History Page
• How the Internet Came to Be
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline v7.0
• Futures and Non-futures for Scholarly Internet.
• History of the Internet links
• RFC 801, planning the TCP/IP switchover
• Internet Archive - A searchable database of old cached versions of websites dating back to 1996
• A list of lectures, some of which relate to the Internet, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is available here. Of particular interest is lecture #3 The Next Big Thing: Video Internet which is delivered in Real Player format. The lecture gives a brief history of networking; discusses convergence between the internet/telephone/television networks; the expansion of broadband access; makes predictions about the future of delivery of video over the internet.