* Windows Media Player applets, used to display embedded video files in Internet Explorer ( and other browsers that support the plugin )

Because of a known vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer, some e-mail programs, such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook programs, may install and execute the worm as soon as the e-mail message is viewed.

These include the World Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) as well as Platform for Internet Content Selection ( PICS ) labels used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer Content Advisor.

In Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions, Internet Explorer 7 and later versions and Windows Live Messenger, ClearType is also turned on by default, even if it is not enabled throughout the operating system.

Internet Explorer represents a notable exception: versions up to IE 3. x cache DNS records for 24 hours by default.

Internet Explorer 4. x and later versions ( up to IE 8 ) decrease the default time out value to half an hour, which may be changed in corresponding registry keys.

One can render this in an XML-enabled browser ( such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox ) by pasting and saving the DTD component above to a text file named example. dtd and the XML file to a differently-named text file, and opening the XML file with the browser.

The history of the Document Object Model is intertwined with the history of the " browser wars " of the late 1990s between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as with that of JavaScript and JScript, the first scripting languages to be widely implemented in the layout engines of web browsers.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

In 1997, Netscape and Microsoft released version 4. 0 of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer respectively, adding support for Dynamic HTML ( DHTML ), functionality enabling changes to a loaded HTML document.

Internet Explorer continues to support its Intermediate DOM for backward compatibility.

About the same time, Internet Explorer 5. 0 shipped with limited support for DOM Level 1.

Non-conformant browsers such as Internet Explorer 4. x and Netscape 4. x were still widely used as late as 2000.

By 2005, large parts of W3C DOM were well-supported by common ECMAScript-enabled browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 ( 2001 ), Opera, Safari and Gecko-based browsers ( like Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey and Camino ).

Some layout engines such as Trident / MSHTML and Presto are associated primarily or exclusively with a particular browser such as Internet Explorer and Opera respectively.

Basic DHTML support was introduced with Internet Explorer 4. 0, although there was a basic dynamic system with Netscape Navigator 4. 0.

Development became easier when Internet Explorer 5. 0 +, Mozilla Firefox 2. 0 +, and Opera 7. 0 + adopted a shared DOM.

Notably, Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8 report deflate support but do not actually accept RFC 1950 format, making actual use of deflate highly unusual.

By March 1996, pre-standard HTTP / 1. 1 was supported in Arena, Netscape 2. 0, Netscape Navigator Gold 2. 01, Mosaic 2. 7, Lynx 2. 5, and in Internet Explorer 2. 0.

However, in the case of free certificate authorities such as CACert, popular browsers ( e. g. Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer ) may not include the trusted root certificates, which may cause untrusted warning messages to be displayed to end users.

Newer versions of popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista implement the Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP ) to verify that this is not the case.

Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.

* Windows 95 B-( OSR2 ) included several major enhancements, Internet Explorer ( IE ) 3. 0 and full FAT32 file system support.

Professor Bjorn Landfeldt, one of the report's authors, stated that filtering technology simply does not work, as it can easily be bypassed and slows access to the Internet by up to 87 %.

Ladbrokes scaled down their Gibraltar operations and their ' Internet permit ' was not renewed.

Category: Internet services shut down by a legal challenge

Narrow-interest rock stations are particularly common on the Internet and satellite radio scenes, broken down into genres such as punk, metal, classic rock, indie music, and the like.

The growth of Internet radio from a small experimenter's toy in the mid-1990s to a huge phenomenon allowing both small do-it-yourselfers and large commercial stations to make their offerings available worldwide was seen as a threat to over-the-air music broadcasting, and was nearly shut down by onerous licensing demands made by the recording industry.

Category: Internet services shut down by a legal challenge

* Internet Plano 1: 2048kbit / s down 512kbit / s up

* Internet Plano 2: 3072kbit / s down 512kbit / s up

* Internet Plano 3: 5120kbit / s down 512kbit / s up

* Internet Plano 4: 10240kbit / s down 512kbit / s up

* December 10 – The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.

However, most boil down to two simple components: local loop ( the cost the local incumbent charges to transport the signal from the end user's central office, otherwise known as a CO, to the point of presence, otherwise known as a POP, of the carrier ) and the port ( the cost to access the telephone network or the Internet through the carrier's network ).

The portal craze, with old media companies racing to outbid each other for Internet properties, died down with the dot-com bust in 2000 and 2001.

At least one home baker has developed a method for heat treating flour at home to break down the starches and make it more acceptable for use in the making of cakes ; this process is currently referred to as " Kate Flour " in Internet baking communities, after the woman who continues to develop the process.

Beonex Launcher ( BeOL, spoken B-O-L ), was an additional upcoming product that never left alpha status which was a stripped down version of the Internet suite Beonex Communicator.

On May 19, 1998, all seven members of L0pht ( Brian Oblivion, Kingpin, Mudge, Space Rogue, Stefan Von Neumann, John Tan, Weld Pond ) famously testified before the Congress of the United States that they could shut down the entire Internet in 30 minutes.

However, the library chose to turn down $ 104, 000 per year of federal funding under CIPA to be able to continue to offer unfiltered Internet access.

Category: Internet services shut down by a legal challenge

While the government is known for shutting down controversial blogs, it is impossible to completely censor the Internet and all websites that may be deemed controversial.

Although the government does not have the physical resources to monitor all Internet chat rooms and forums, the threat of being shut down has caused Internet content providers to employ internal staff, colloquially known as " big mamas ", who stop and remove forum comments which may be politically sensitive.

Business analysts and foreign Internet operators regard the licenses as intended to clamp down on information deemed harmful to the PRC government.

In July 2012, Dutch Internet provider XS4ALL closed down its UUCP service, claiming it was " probably one of the last providers in the world that still offered it "; it still had 13 users at that time, and new users had been refused for several years already.

SQL Slammer is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05: 30 UTC on January 25, 2003.