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The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that comprises private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information services and resources, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, discussion groups, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing.

Most traditional communication media, including telephone, radio, television, paper mail, newspapers, and print publishing, have been transformed by the Internet, giving rise to new media such as email, online music, digital newspapers, news aggregators, and audio and video streaming websites. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interaction through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking services. Online shopping has also grown to occupy a significant market across industries, enabling firms to extend brick and mortar presences to serve larger markets. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. (Full article...)

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Bomis, Inc. (/ˈbɒmɪs/, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise") was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation.

The company initially tried a number of ideas for content, including being a directory of information about Chicago. The site subsequently focused on content geared to a male audience, including information on sporting activities, automobiles, and women. Bomis became successful after focusing on pornography. "Bomis Babes" was devoted to erotic images; the "Bomis Babe Report" featured adult pictures. Bomis Premium, available for an additional fee, provided explicit material. "The Babe Engine" helped users find erotic content through a web search engine. The advertising director for Bomis noted that 99 percent of queries on the site were for nude women. (Full article...)

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Photo of Tron Guy taken by subject, Jay Maynard

Credit: Jay Maynard

Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminiscent Tron Guy costume. He became an Internet phenomenon when his costume inspired by the movie Tron spread across the net from postings on Slashdot and Fark.

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Benjamin Robert Simon (born May 12, 1997), known online as Ruben Sim, is an American YouTuber known for his commentary and criticism of the online game platform Roblox. Simon began producing content about Roblox throughout the 2010s, building a large audience through satirical videos and investigative commentary.

In November 2021, Roblox Corporation filed a $1.65 million federal lawsuit against Simon, alleging he had harassed other users and developers and posted tweets containing false terrorist threats that prompted the temporary lockdown of a Roblox developer conference. The litigation was settled out of court in January 2022, with Simon agreeing to a $150,000 monetary judgment without admitting wrongdoing, alongside accepting a legal permanent injunction banning him from the platform. Simon later publicly accused the corporation of using the lawsuit to silence his ongoing criticisms of their alleged child safety and moderation failures.

Following the settlement, Simon shifted the focus of his channel to exposing online predators within the Roblox community. His investigations contributed to the FBI arrest of a prominent Roblox game developer and the creation of "Moderation for Dummies", an initiative to document explicit content on the Roblox platform. In 2025, Simon became a central figure in a broader community controversy after publicly defending and collaborating with YouTuber Schlep, a fellow creator banned by the corporation for conducting unauthorized sting operations against alleged predators on the platform. (Full article...)

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Main project: WikiProject Internet
Related WikiProjects: Blogging • Websites • Early Web History • Internet culture

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... that the Brazilian online newspaper Migalhas published a book by Supreme Court justice Luís Roberto Barroso under its own publishing house?
... that Cai Qi was one of the few high-ranking Chinese officials to maintain a regular presence on social media?
... that the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot received more than one million views in the week it was launched?
... that several Internet memes, including "is this Battletoads?" and the NPC Wojak, originated from the 4chan imageboard /v/?
... that the International Criminal Court decided to switch from Microsoft Office to OpenDesk after its chief prosecutor was disconnected from his Microsoft-hosted email account?
... that members of a transnational online sexual-abuse network used vehicle terminology to disguise their crimes?

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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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The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia.

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Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet)
Image 2T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from History of the Internet)
Image 3Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Abramatic, and Tim Berners-Lee at the tenth anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (from History of the World Wide Web)
Image 4Satellite Internet access via VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access)
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Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019
Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (from History of the Internet)
Image 6Where the WEB was born (from History of the World Wide Web)
Image 7Stamped envelope of Russian Post issued in 1993 with stamp and graphics dedicated to first Russian underwater digital optic cable laid in 1993 by Rostelecom from Kingisepp to Copenhagen (see also: Internet in Russia) (from History of the Internet)
Image 8First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet)
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Internet users in 2023 as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access)
Image 10info.cern.ch, the first website, in 2025 (from History of the World Wide Web)
Image 11
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access)
Image 12The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN (from History of the World Wide Web)
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Internet users in 2023 as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet)
Image 141997 advertisement in State Magazine by the US State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamiliar Web (from History of the World Wide Web)
Image 15The "message block", designed by Paul Baran in 1962 and refined in 1964, is the first proposal of a data packet. (from History of the Internet)
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Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet)
Image 17Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access)
Image 18Map of the TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from History of the Internet)
Image 19The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from Internet access)
Image 20Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access)
Image 21BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from History of the Internet)
Image 22Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access)
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Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access)
Image 24Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet)
Image 25The NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. (from History of the World Wide Web)
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Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from Internet access)

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I used to think the Net would change the world, but the world has changed the Net.

— Ken MacLeod, 2000

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