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Parent topics
- computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. [e]
- telecommunications [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Domain Name System [r]: DNS is the Internet service which translates to and from raw IP addresses and domain names. [e]
- email [r]: A method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. [e]
- Internet Protocol [r]: A protocol that is used to transmit data across an Internet Protocol Suite-compatible network, "hop-by-hop" from the source host, through intermediate routers, to the destination host [e]
- Internet Protocol Suite [r]: The real-world set of networking protocols, with administrative and operational conventions, which populate the real-world working Internet [e]
- Internet Protocol version 4 [r]: The main internetwork (also called hop-by-hop or network layer) protocol of the existing Internet and products compatible with the Internet Protocol Suite, to be replaced by Internet Protocol version 6 [e]
- Internet Protocol version 6 [r]: The next-generation Internet Protocol, providing (among other benefits) a vastly increased address space (128bits), which should in turn provide the ability for an end-to-end Internet and allowing new models of communication to be developed. [e]
- Gopher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transmission Control Protocol [r]: A protocol that reliably delivers bytes across an internet. As long as the connection is up, bytes will be delivered without bit errors and in the order they were sent. It does not guarantee latency. [e]
- User Datagram Protocol [r]: The simplest, lowest-overhead end-to-end protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite [e]
- Usenet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- wiki [r]: A website that allows anyone (with permission required or not) to edit any page and to add new pages. [e]
- World Wide Web [r]: A global collection of information presented in the form of documents hosted on networked computers and available to the public. [e]
Other related topics
- Abilene [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ARPANET [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Computer network [r]: A collection of computers or digital devices ("nodes") connected by communication links. [e]
- Internet2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- JWICS [r]: A military and intelligence communications system approved for classified information designated collateral TOP SECRET, as well as any information in a compartmented control system such as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP) [e]
- NIPRNET [r]: The common user network intended to carry U.S. military "sensitive but unclassified" traffic for military personnel, government employees, military contractors, and approved allies [e]
- NSFNET [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SIPRNET [r]: The shared United States Department of Defense network that carries the bulk of classified information, limited to a security classification of SECRET. [e]
- Warfighter Information Network [r]: Add brief definition or description
- X.25 [r]: Add brief definition or description
