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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 consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologi
The Dogs of War. The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, featuring a small group of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the fictional African country of Zangaro. The story details a geologist's mineral discovery, and the preparations for the attack: soldier ...
Rate-adaptive digital subscriber line ( RADSL) is a pre-standard asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) solution. [1] RADSL was introduced as proprietary technology by AT&T Paradyne, later GlobeSpan Technologies Inc., [2] in June 1996. [3] In September 1999, RADSL technology was formally described by ANSI in T1.TR.59-1999.
Internetworking. Internetworking is the practice of interconnecting multiple computer networks, [1] : 169 such that any pair of hosts in the connected networks can exchange messages irrespective of their hardware-level networking technology. The resulting system of interconnected networks are called an internetwork, or simply an internet .
In measurements made between April and June 2013 (Q2), the United States ranked 8th out of 55 countries with an average connection speed of 8.7 Mbit/s. This represents an increase from 14th out of 49 countries and 5.3 Mbit/s for January to March 2011 (Q1). The global average for Q2 2013 was 3.3 Mbit/s, up from 2.1 Mbit/s for Q1 2011.
Internet users[edit] In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries. [1] [2] According to Hootsuite, the number ...
Zuula was a metasearch engine that provided search results from a number of different search engines. Zuula was used to carry out standard web searches, image searches, video searches, news searches, blog searches, and job searches. Results were available from major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and smaller engines, such as ...
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...