The Children's Internet Protection Act and the June 2003 case United States v. American Library Association found CIPA constitutional as a condition placed on the receipt of federal funding, stating that First Amendment concerns were dispelled by the law's provision that allowed adult library users to have the filtering software disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request.

The Internet, facilitated by the development of search engines, has grown into a common source of information for many people, and provides easy access to reliable original sources and expert opinions, thanks in part to initiatives such as Google Books, MIT's release of its educational materials and the open PubMed Central library of the National Library of Medicine.

Library scholars have acknowledged that libraries need to address the ways that they market their services if they are to compete with the Internet and mitigate the risk of losing users.

Library bodies such as CILIP ( formerly the Library Association, founded 1877 ) may advocate the role that libraries and librarians can play in a modern Internet environment, and in the teaching of information literacy skills.

* IBM: z / OS Internet Library

* Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions Court Decisions applying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

For communities that lack adequate Internet connectivity -- like developing countries, rural areas, and prisons -- off-line information stores like the eGranary Digital Library ( a collection of approximately 30 million educational resources from more than 2, 000 Web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs ) provide off-line access to information.

According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, Wail al-Shehri and Waleed al-Shehri used Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library in August 2001, where they may have been looking at information on crop dusting.

* Marx2Mao. org Mao Internet Library

* Selected Internet Resources -- Ice Cream / Science Reference Section, Library of Congress

* Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism Collection of Critical and Biographical Websites

* International Children's Digital Library Repository of 2, 827 children's books in 48 languages viewable over the Internet.

* Conflict in Kashmir: Selected Internet Resources by the Library, University of California, Berkeley, USA ; University of California, Berkeley Library Bibliographies and Web-Bibliographies list

It includes 32-bit versions of Corel WordPerfect 7, Corel Quattro Pro 7 and Corel Presentations 7 ; Envoy 7, InfoCentral 7, Desktop Application Director, Corel Barista, QuickTasks, Paradox 7, CorelFLOW 3, CorelDRAW 6 ( illustration module ), Corel A to Z, Netscape Navigator, Quick View Plus, IBM VoiceType Control, 10, 000 clipart images, 200 photos, 59 instructional demos, Corel Screen Saver, Sidekick 95, Dashboard 95, Corel Time Line, 1, 000 fonts, Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary 3. 0, Stedman's Plus Spell Checker 4. 0, 20 QuickTasks ( 23 Corel WordPerfect 7 templates ) for health care, Template and style guides for research paper submissions, 20 medical master templates for Corel Presentations 7, 30 medical image watermarks, additional medical clipart and medical illustration images, Additional QuickConnect Internet links to National Library of Medicine, Corel Medical Series web page and Corel Photo Studio.

* The " Basic " Plots In Literature, Information on the most common divisions of the basic plots, from the Internet Public Library organization.

In February 2001, the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners unanimously accepted the recommendation of the Library Advisory Board and authorized the library to enter into a lawsuit to stop the Children's Internet Protection Act.

* 24 books with marginalia by Northrop Frye in the Frye Collection at the Victoria University Library, hosted by the Internet Archive

The Winslow campus now houses the Winslow Public Library, Friends of the Library Bookstore, and Internet Cafe in the old High school building.

East Bridgewater Public Library is located in a historic building along Route 18 at the center of town ; it is a part of the Southeastern Area Internet Library Services ( SAILS ) network.

The town's post office is also located in the town center, as is the Holmes Public Library, which is a member of the Southeastern Area Internet Library System ( SAILS ) network.

The Internet is an essential tool of amateur astronomers.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

The digital data collected by the telescope is then transmitted and displayed to the user by means of the Internet.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

A relatively recent role for amateur astronomers is searching for overlooked phenomena ( e. g., Kreutz Sungrazers ) in the vast libraries of digital images and other data captured by Earth and space based observatories, much of which is available over the Internet.

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

* ram – a text file that contains a link to the Internet address where the RealAudio file is stored.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

ARIN is one of five Regional Internet Registries ( RIRs ) in the world.

Membership is not required to participate in ARIN ’ s policy development process or to apply for Internet number resources.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The President of the ACM for 2012 – 2014 is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet ".

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

The " Belarusian Internet " is widely called ByNet ( Байнет ) ( as an analogue of Runet ).

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

The profile of the average Internet user is male, university educated, living in the capital, and working in a state enterprise.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

Internet access is limited and expensive though telephone service is good.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity.

* Internet email ( more common in later Internet-connected BBSes )

* more than 30 Internet cafes and Wi-Fi Hotspots

On his work there Atkinson said, " what Numenta is doing is more fundamentally important to society than the personal computer and the rise of the Internet.

Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but are now becoming more commonplace as copyright collectives such as the RIAA are increasingly targeting the file sharing home Internet user.

The term is of recent use but is not commonly used in psychology, and according to one analyst, " has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary ".

EDuke was a semi-official branch of Duke Nukem 3D that was released to the Internet as Duke Nukem 3D v2. 0 by 3D Realms in 2000 ; it focused primarily on enhancing the CON scripting language in ways which allowed those modifying the game to do much more with the system than originally possible.

A number of career specific courses such as veterinary assisting, medical billing and coding, real estate license, bookkeeping and many more are now available to students through the Internet.

In general, the Internet tends to provide more current coverage than print media, due to the ease with which material on the Internet can be updated.

In some cases classrooms have been moved entirely online, while in other instances the goal is more to learn how the Internet can be more than a classroom.

* Turkle, S., Eliza Effect: tendency to accept computer responses as more intelligent than they really are ( from Life on the screen-Identity in the Age of the Internet, Phoenix Paperback: London, 1997 )

Honotua will increase the speed of transferring digital information from the current maximum Internet speed of 500 megabits per second to more than 20 gigabits per second.

With the rise of the Internet, in-canon online material has become more prominent.

In late 2007, it was the most popular file sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40 %.

For example, coffeehouses often provide Internet access free of charge to attract more customers.

One of the more notable new features was the addition of Internet Connection Sharing, a form of network address translation, allowing several machines on a LAN ( Local Area Network ) to share a single Internet connection.

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

With the advent of the Internet, even more of this type of fiction is available.

The Internet Society is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization

Aside from the more frequently found abbreviations, acronyms and emoticons, Internet slang is also based on archaic words or the lesser-known dialectal counterparts of a term in mainstream language.