Internet
A global network of hosts where a vast amount of information resides and commerce takes place. Born as a means of communication between research laboratories in the late sixties, the Internet has gone through several iterations (DARPANET, NSFNET) until arriving at the present form - the World Wide Web. In common parlance, World Wide Web and Internet are used to describe the same thing.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Internet
Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2002 By Ray Kurzweil andWe Are the Web By Kevin Kelly
Not Your Father's Internet By Bill Gates
Artificial Intelligence in the World Wide Web By David G. Stork
Review of Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas By and
Excerpts from The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies By Damien Broderick
Chapter 6: Smart Money By Neil Gershenfeld
The Law of Accelerating Returns By Ray Kurzweil
The Human Machine Merger: Why We Will Spend Most of Our Time in Virtual Reality in the Twenty-first Century By Ray Kurzweil
Connectivity: What it is and why it is so important By Bob Frankston
News Articles that refer to Internet
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'Nimda' virus outbreak spreads worldwide
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Broadband wireless Internet access nationwide planned
Report from from 'The Future of Life' conference
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A Brief History of the InternetWorld Wide Web Consortium
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Number of Hosts - Updated Daily