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The origins of the Internet date back to research that enabled the
academia in the 1980s, the subsequent commercialization in the 1990s and beyond incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life. (Full article...
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FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center
reporting more incidents of phishing than any other type of computer crime.
The term "phishing" was first recorded in 1995 in the cracking toolkit AOHell, but may have been used earlier in the hacker magazine 2600. It is a variation of fishing and refers to the use of lures to "fish" for sensitive information.
Measures to prevent or reduce the impact of phishing attacks include legislation, user education, public awareness, and technical security measures. The importance of phishing awareness has increased in both personal and professional settings, with phishing attacks among businesses rising from 72% to 86% from 2017 to 2020. (Full article...)

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Dell PowerEdge 850

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HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.). A computer
that runs a computer program as described above.

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Timeline of computing 2020-present § 2024

July 5: Ransomware attack hits over 200 US companies, forces Swedish grocery chain to close

July 31: "Avast ye scurvy file sharers!": Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge

October 6: European Court of Justice says Facebook must remove 'illegal' posts globally

September 22: Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence

April 8: 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet

December 23: UK police locate missing Chinese teen Mei Chen, silent on details

October 29: Technology giant Microsoft completes acquisition of GitHub

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... that Demi Lovato started an Internet feud with a frozen yogurt shop—and lost?

... that since 2018, IKEA's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community?

... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?

... that in 2016, the removal of a few lines of code briefly "broke the Internet"?

... that social media influencer Andrew Tate described himself as "absolutely a misogynist"?

... that a verse by Kendrick Lamar for The Melodic Blue was leaked before the album's release and went viral as an Internet meme?

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Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Netscape's success attracted the attention of Microsoft, which recognized the web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution. Microsoft licensed the Mosaic source code from Spyglass, Inc., an offshoot of the University of Illinois, and turned it into Internet Explorer. The resulting battle between the two companies became known as the Browser Wars. Andreessen is an investor in social news website Digg and serves on the board of Open Media Network. He is also a cofounder of Ning
, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites.

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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)

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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
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Image 3T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from History of the Internet)

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Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access
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Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019
Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (from History of the Internet)

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BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from History of the Internet
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Image 7Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access)

Image 8Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet)

Image 9Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access)

Image 10Where the WEB was born (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 11Map of the
TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from History of the Internet
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Image 121997 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 13
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet
)

Image 14Robert 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 15The 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)

Image 16Satellite Internet access via
VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access
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Image 17
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet
)

Image 18
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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Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access)

Image 20The NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 21The "message block", designed by
data packet. (from History of the Internet
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Image 22The 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 23Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access)

Image 24Stamped 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 (from History of the Internet)

Image 25First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet)

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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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