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What is the Internet? Why is it called the Internet? What is the history of the Internet? Many people use the term in every day life without understanding what it is or how it works. Which is fine, you don't have to be an expert on automobiles to drive a car.

According to Wikipedia, the Internet is “a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP).”

In other words, the Internet is a network of networks, or an “internetwork.”

The gory details of how it works are far beyond the scope of this brief introduction. You will have to do your homework to understand it better, and there are a lot of resources both here and elsewhere to satiate your curiosity.

Updated: Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 @ 10:39 PM EST

Internet {4}(6)[5]

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• History {0}(21)[19]
• Protocols {3}(2)[52]
• Security {0}(28)[74]
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• 1.Internet-Drafts and RFC Search

  Internet Request for Comments document search. [202]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://mirror.switch.ch/cgi-bin/search/nph-findstd?scope=rfc
  Author:
  NetServices
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, April 11th, 2005 @ 7:03 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Internet-Drafts and RFC Search internetrfc
   

• 2.Pew Internet and American Life Project

  Produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life; aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through data collection and analysis. [1444]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.pewinternet.org/
  Author:
  Pew Internet Staff
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, July 29th, 2005 @ 11:38 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Pew Internet and American Life Project cultureinternetstatssurveyweb
   

• 3.A Consise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies

  This overview covers ISOC, IETF, IESG, IRTF, IRSG, IAB, the RFC Editor, ICANN, IANA, and of course the W3C. Holy acronym committee batman! The paper was originally submitted as a RFC, but was rejected because some of the material was "too" controversial. [1405]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html
  Author:
  Alex Simonelis
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 12:11 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  A Consise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies internetrfcw3cweb
   

• 4.Acronym Finder

  I'm not sure which profession or industry holds the claim to the most confusing jargon or lexicon of abbreviations and acronyms, but computing, programming, and the Internet/Web has to be right up there. Find unfamiliar ones with this comprehensive tool. [1404]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym.asp
  Author:
  James Maurer
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 12:10 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Acronym Finder computersinternetjargonprogrammingweb
   

• 5.Internet Research Reports

  Comprehensive reports on Web server market-share, SSL servers, Apache modules by popularity, technology penetration (image formats, client-side scripting, stylesheets...), Cookies and much more. Synopsis: Apache is smoking IIS and PHP kicks butt. [1276]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://securityspace.com/s_survey/data/
  Author:
  E-Soft Inc.
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 @ 5:43 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Internet Research Reports apacheclient-serverinternetphpsecuritystylesheet
   

• 6.IETF Request for Comments: Mini-Index

  All of the RFCs, in a table of hyperlinks. [203]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://mirror.switch.ch/rfc/mini-index.html
  Author:
  Jutta Degener
  [2]
  Reviewed:Monday, April 11th, 2005 @ 7:10 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  IETF Request for Comments: Mini-Index internetrfc
   

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