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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.
Silicon ValleyRelated: Valley companies built services and infrastructure that shaped how the Internet is used.
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.
TelecommunicationsRelated: It carries web pages, messages, voice, video, and other digital services over telecommunications links.
Media ecologyRelated: Its networked structure changes how information circulates and how social relationships form.
Online gameRelated: The internet connects players and game services across distant locations.
Digital RevolutionRelated: The Internet connected digital devices into a system for worldwide information exchange.
Information AgeRelated: Its network infrastructure made rapid, worldwide information exchange routine.
Metcalfe's lawRelated: Its users and services form a large, evolving communications network.
Interdependent networksRelated: Internet services depend on power and physical transport links, creating cross-sector dependencies.
Evolving networksRelated: Its routers and links are added, removed, and rerouted as infrastructure changes.
Means of communicationRelated: It carries many forms of communication through packet-switched connections.
Robert MetcalfeRelated: Ethernet became a common technology for connecting devices to the Internet.