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    Today's featured picture. The chestnut-crowned antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) is a species of bird in the antpitta family, Grallariidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It is around 18 to 23 centimetres (7.1 to 9.1 in) long, with a mass of 70 to 98 grams (2.5 to 3.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage.

  3. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    Robert Cailliau, 1995. Robert Cailliau (French: [kaˈjo], born 1947), is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, working with Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN, developed the World Wide Web. [229] In 2012 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

  4. Four Noble Truths - Wikipedia

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    [web 17] [28] [note 3] Patrick Olivelle explains that moksha is a central concept in Indian religions, and "literally means freedom from samsara." [web 20] [note 17] Melvin E. Spiro further explains that "desire is the cause of suffering because desire is the cause of rebirth." [86] When desire ceases, rebirth and its accompanying suffering ceases.

  5. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Internet art - Wikipedia

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    Internet art (also known as net art or web art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the physical gallery and museum system. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work of art. Artists working in this manner are sometimes referred to ...

  7. World Wide Web Virtual Library - Wikipedia

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    It is sometimes informally referred to as the "WWWVL", the "Virtual Library" or just "the VL". The individual indexes, or virtual libraries live on hundreds of different servers around the world. A set of index pages linking these individual libraries is maintained at vlib.org, [2] in Geneva only a few kilometres from where the VL began life.

  8. Outline of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    Outline of the Internet. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet. The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of ...

  9. Starlink - Wikipedia

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    Production. Status. Active since 2019 ; 5 years ago(2019) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, [ 3 ] providing coverage to over 100 countries and territories. It also aims to provide global mobile broadband.