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The Internet, sometimes called the "Information Superhighway," is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol (IP) Suite. 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.

The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).

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Map of the early internet in 1982.
The history of the Internet dates back to the early development of communication networks. In the 1950s and early 1960s, prior to the widespread inter-networking that led to the Internet, most communication networks were limited by their nature to only allow communications between the stations on the network. Some networks had gateways or bridges between them, but these bridges were often limited or built specifically for a single use. One prevalent computer networking method was based on the central mainframe method, simply allowing its terminals to be connected via long leased lines. This method was used in the 1950s by Project RAND to support researchers such as Herbert Simon, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when collaborating across the continent with researchers in Santa Monica, California, on automated theorem proving and artificial intelligence.
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Map of Wi-Fi nodes in the world collected by the WiGLE project
Credit: WiGLE.net

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle using a Wi-Fi-equipped computer, such as a laptop or a PDA. It is similar to using a radio scanner, or to the amateur radio practice of DXing.

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Al Gore, Official portrait, 1994
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and the U. S. Senate (1985–93), representing Tennessee. He was the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 2000 election, and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his work as an environmental activist. Gore has been involved with the development of the Internet since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice-President. His High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (often referred to as the Gore Bill) was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway." Leonard Kleinrock, a key player in the development of the ARPANET, considers the act to be a critical moment in Internet history. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn stated in the 2000 article "Al Gore and the Internet", that Gore was "the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development."
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Erik Möller

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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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Representative Tom Lantos
China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.... As we meet today, Chinese citizens who had the courage to speak their minds on the Internet are in the Chinese gulag because Yahoo chose to reveal their identities to the Chinese government.
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Articles: Application layerARPANETBlogBrowsersCERNCollaborative softwareComputer fileComputer networkComputer networkingDARPAData (computing)Electronic commerceE-mailEnglish on the InternetFidoNetFile sharingHistory of the InternetHTMLHyperCardHyperlinkICANNInstant messagingInternet accessInternet capitalization conventionsInternet censorshipInternet Control Message ProtocolInternet democracyInternet Exchange PointInternet Governance ForumInternet privacyInternet ProtocolInternet ProtocolsInternet researchInternetworkingMassively multiplayer online role-playing gameMosaic (web browser)National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsNet neutralityOnline chatPeeringRemote accessResource (Web)Transmission Control ProtocolScale-free networkSearch engineSocial network serviceUnicodeUniform Resource LocatorUser agentUser Datagram ProtocolViolaWWWVirtual private networkVoIPWeb browserWeb operating systemWeb serviceWide area networkWorld Summit on the Information SocietyWorld Wide Web

Lists: List of basic internet topicsList of Internet topicsAcademic databases and search enginesList of blogging termsList of commercial voice over IP network providersList of FTP commandsList of FTP server return codesList of HTTP headersList of HTTP status codesList of IP protocol numbersList of journals available free onlineList of IPv6 tunnel brokersList of PHP editorsList of organizations with .INT domain namesList of social networking websitesList of newsgroupsComp.* hierarchySci.* hierarchyList of RFCsList of search enginesList of virtual communitiesList of web directoriesList of webcomicsList of websites founded before 1995

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