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The 50 pages that link to Internet, each with the reason it gives.

• GlobalizationRelated: It enables information and communication to cross borders rapidly and at low cost.

• Mass mediaRelated: It provides infrastructure for online news, social platforms, and streaming.

• TelegraphyCompared with: It carries digital data through packet networks rather than dedicated telegraph circuits.

• World Wide WebNarrower topic: The Web was built as an information system running over the internet.

• PornographyNarrower topic: Networked distribution transformed access, production, and circulation of pornography.

• Technological determinismBroader topic: Claims that it transforms politics and culture often assume its effects follow from the technology itself.

• Internet ProtocolNarrower topic: IP datagrams are the common delivery unit linking the Internet’s diverse networks.

• E-commerceNarrower topic: It supplies the network infrastructure used by most contemporary e-commerce.

• Silicon ValleyRelated: Valley companies built services and infrastructure that shaped how the Internet is used.

• Packet switchingNarrower topic: The Internet is the largest familiar system built around packet-switched communication.

• ARPANETNarrower topic: ARPANET was an early network whose protocols and interconnection experiments helped establish the Internet.

• Computer networkBroader topic: The Internet is the largest public example of interconnected computer networks.

• Social construction of technologyBroader topic: Its development reflects negotiations among researchers, institutions, governments, and users.

• Computer-mediated communicationRelated: It provides the infrastructure for communication across distant devices and services.

• English as a lingua francaRelated: English remains prominent in online communication, though users also rely on many other languages.

• Vannevar BushNarrower topic: Bush’s associative trails anticipated some conceptual features later found in networked information systems.

• Local area networkNarrower topic: LANs commonly provide the local connection through which devices reach the wider Internet.

• Xerox PARCNarrower topic: PARC’s Ethernet became a foundational local-network technology used to connect computers to the Internet.

• TelecommunicationsRelated: It carries web pages, messages, voice, video, and other digital services over telecommunications links.

• CrowdsourcingNarrower topic: Networked communication made it practical to invite and coordinate contributions across distance.

• Media ecologyRelated: Its networked structure changes how information circulates and how social relationships form.

• Bulletin board systemNarrower topic: Internet access eventually let many communities operate without direct dial-up calls to a single host.

• Complex systemBroader topic: Its decentralized architecture supports robust communication and unpredictable large-scale behavior.

• J. C. R. LickliderNarrower topic: Licklider’s early network vision helped prepare institutions and researchers for its development.

• Online gameRelated: The internet connects players and game services across distant locations.

• Robert KahnNarrower topic: TCP/IP and open architecture enabled the Internet to connect networks worldwide.

• Digital RevolutionRelated: The Internet connected digital devices into a system for worldwide information exchange.

• Information technologyBroader topic: It provides the broadest common network infrastructure for information exchange.

• Leonard KleinrockNarrower topic: Kleinrock’s packet-network research contributed to the technical lineage from ARPANET to the Internet.

• Paul BaranNarrower topic: The Internet embodies packet-based communication, a principle Baran helped develop.

• Information AgeRelated: Its network infrastructure made rapid, worldwide information exchange routine.

• IntranetCompared with: Unlike the public internet, an intranet restricts access to an organization's authorized users.

• Jimmy WalesNarrower topic: Wales’s ventures depended on the internet’s capacity to publish and connect contributors worldwide.

• Metcalfe's lawRelated: Its users and services form a large, evolving communications network.

• Private networkCompared with: Private networks may connect to the internet, but they are not themselves publicly reachable by default.

• 20th centuryBroader topic: Its late-century expansion transformed communication and laid groundwork for digital globalization.

• Dark webNarrower topic: Dark-web services run over internet infrastructure rather than forming a separate physical network.

• History of communicationBroader topic: Networked computing made communication interactive, many-to-many, and globally accessible.

• History of telecommunicationBroader topic: It unified digital communication across independently operated networks.

• WebsiteNarrower topic: The internet is the infrastructure on which websites are accessed.

• Interdependent networksRelated: Internet services depend on power and physical transport links, creating cross-sector dependencies.

• Architecture (networks)Narrower topic: The Internet emerged from architectures that enabled independent networks to interoperate.

• Data communicationBroader topic: It carries data among devices across networks with different owners and technologies.

• Evolving networksRelated: Its routers and links are added, removed, and rerouted as infrastructure changes.

• History of computer scienceNarrower topic: Computer science research in networking and protocols helped make this infrastructure possible.

• History of the World Wide WebNarrower topic: The Web was built as an information system running on the Internet, not as the Internet itself.

• Means of communicationRelated: It carries many forms of communication through packet-switched connections.

• Old mediaCompared with: It enables decentralized, on-demand distribution beyond old media's fixed channels.

• Ray TomlinsonNarrower topic: Email became one of its earliest and most widely used applications.

• Robert MetcalfeRelated: Ethernet became a common technology for connecting devices to the Internet.