the Internet, global system of interconnected computer networks, standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP), network of networks, private, public, academic, business, and government networks, local and global scope, broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies, information resources and services, inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks, communications media including telephone, music, film, and television, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV), newspaper, book and other print publishing, website technology, blogging and web feeds, new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking, online shopping,business-to-business and financial services on the Internet, the services of the Internet, no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage, network sets its own policies, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants, contribute technical expertise, IP networks, the terms Internet and World Wide Web, a web browser, to view web pages, global computer network connecting millions of computing devices, a collection of interconnected documents (web pages) and other web resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs,e-mail, file transfer, remote computer control, newsgroups, and online games,the term Interweb, Internet and World Wide Web,a technically unsavvy user, the spread of unmetered high-speed connections,mobile Internet devices, mobile phones, datacards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers,wirelessly, pocket-sized devices, the services of the Internet, email and the web, service providers,educational material at all levels from pre-school to post-doctoral is available from websites, school and high-school revision guides and virtual universities, to access to top-end scholarly literature,Google Scholar,distance education, homework and other assignments, self-guided learning, formal and informal education, sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills,collaborative software, communicate and share ideas,free software movement, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org. Internet chat, an IRC chat room, an instant messaging system, or a social networking website, colleagues to stay in touch in a very convenient way while working at their computers during the day, messages can be exchanged via email, files to be exchanged, drawings and images to be shared, or voice and video contact between team members, content systems allow collaborating teams to work on shared sets of documents simultaneously without accidentally destroying each other's work, business and project teams,scientific research, software development, conference planning, political activism and creative writing, social and political collaboration, computer security, authentication and encryption technologies, an accountant sitting at home can audit the books of a company based in another country, on a server situated in a third country that is remotely maintained by IT specialists in a fourth, home-working bookkeepers, based on information emailed to them from offices all over the world, the cost of private leased lines would have made many of them infeasible in practice, an office worker away from their desk can access their emails, access their data using cloud computing, or open a remote desktop session into their office PC using a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection on the Internet,system administrators as the Virtual Private Nightmare
Exercise 3. What do you know about these notions?
