It may be the case that increased worldwide communication through radio, television, the Internet and globalization has reduced the tendency to regional variation.

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 Internet has largely erased the distinction of shareware-most users now download the software directly from the developer's website rather than receiving it from another BBS user ' sharing ' it.

The popularity of Internet cafés has fallen in recent years, as most users prefer to access the Internet from home or work.

The term has become common Internet slang.

If you come up with an innovation that serves, that resonates with customers, the Internet will allow that innovation to spread dramatically faster than any other technology has enabled a new innovation to be adopted in the history of mankind.

Numerous newspapers and pamphlets are published on a regular basis, and one company has begun providing Internet service.

As the Internet has become increasingly important in global trade, the trade-show model has changed.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.

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 ".

The existence or otherwise of cabals has led to the Internet phenomenon originating on Usenet, " TINC " ( standing for There Is No Cabal ).

The Australian Internet Safety Advisory Body has information about " practical advice on Internet safety, parental control and filters for the protection of children, students and families " that also includes public libraries.

The term has become a conventional means to describe anything associated with the Internet and the diverse Internet culture.

The Dominican Republic has Cable Internet, ADSL, WIMAX, EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS / HSDPA in most parts of the country.

Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, a left-wing cultural association, or Education @ Internet, which has developed from an Esperanto organization ; most others are specifically Esperanto organizations.

In the past much Internet traffic was routed through the U. S. and the UK, but this has changed ; for example, in 2000, 95 % of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt.

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.

Nevertheless, the global Internet traffic has continued its exponential growth, undisturbed, and it is estimated at 21 exabytes per month.

In the last few years, the Deist Alliance was created so that many of the sites on the Internet could come together to support each other and advocate deism.

Other journals, whether spin-offs of established print journals, or created as electronic only, have come into existence promoting the rapid dissemination capability, and availability, on the Internet.

Wider public use of such terms on the Internet did not come until August 1993, when Alan Parry announced the existence of a new electronic mailing list for discussion of " intelligent " dance music: the Intelligent Dance Music list, or IDM List for short.

However, broadband video in the context of streaming Internet video has come to mean video files that have bitrates high enough to require broadband Internet access for viewing.

In Internet English shorthand and on forums and blogs, the transcription " pbbbt " has come to be used to mean blowing a raspberry.

In 2002, Tarmo Koivisto published a comic album WWW. MAMMILA. FI in which the Internet and shady business practices come to Mämmilä.

All rooms come with high speed wired as well as wireless Internet.

In this period, people who worked with the Internet had come to believe that " everything moved faster on the ' net ", because the Internet made the dissemination of information far easier and cheaper.

Although many possibilities probably come to mind some examples of successful Internet Communities are:

Unlike a social community, an online community provides real-world communities a place to come together using the Internet.

When the 2003 summit failed to agree on the future of Internet governance, the Working Group on Internet Governance ( WGIG ) was formed to come up with ideas on how to progress.

The award is one of the older and better-known internet-oriented awards and has come to be associated with the phrase " The Oscars of the Internet.

Being able to dial telephone calls the way customers have come to expect is considered crucial for the convergence of classic telephone service ( PSTN ) and Internet telephony ( Voice over IP, or VoIP ), and for the development of new IP multimedia services.

Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla, Opera, Safari and Chrome come with a predetermined set of root certificates pre-installed, so SSL certificates from larger vendors will work instantly ; in effect the browsers ' developers determine which CAs are trusted third parties for the browsers ' users.

Internet cafés come in a wide range of styles, reflecting their location, main clientele, and sometimes, the social agenda of the proprietors.

A reviewer at The Seattle Times ( and coauthor of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, a 1993 biography of Gates ), called Gates ' coverage of the Internet " weakest of all " the topics Gates covered, saying the " World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a functional appendage of the Internet ( rather than its driving force ), and both come off as a subset of the Information Highway, a term Gates uses with abandon despite its disfavor among digerati.

The word has also come into use for pre-created form letters on the Internet for things such as issues to be broached by a politician based on an issue ad, requesting a cable network be added to a system by a cable or satellite operator, or a pre-written complaint about something such as a program, book, or video game opposed by a group which created the letter, along with online petitions.

Since ASAM released its statement, and shortly before its release, additional new studies have come out on Internet addiction ( which include Internet pornography use ).

Some of the larger commercial BBSes, such as MaxMegabyte and ExecPC BBS, evolved into Internet Service Providers.

Internet filters, parental control software, and / or accountability software may also be combined into one product.

Broadband Internet is achieved over coaxial cable by using cable modems to convert the network data into a type of digital signal that can be transferred over coaxial cable.

ARC also published a large percentage of the early Request For Comments, an ongoing series of publications that document the evolution of ARPANET into the Internet.

An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses.

By the time mass applications for wireless Internet had emerged, and the U. S. had opened up to DECT, well into the new century, the industry had moved far ahead in terms of performance and DECT's time as a wireless data transport had passed.

The types of available technologies used in distance education are divided into two groups: synchronous learning and asynchronous learning though the expansion of the Internet blurs these distinctions.

Egypt is following closely the efforts to standardize WiMax technologies as they permit simpler and faster access to Internet services, especially as WiMax receivers are integrated into PC processors.

Its ability to provide hypertext links within documents that could reach into documents anywhere on the Internet began the creation of the Web on the Internet.

This type of attack defeats the security provided by HTTPS by changing the < tt > https :</ tt > link into an < tt > http :</ tt > link, taking advantage of the fact that few Internet users actually type " https " into their browser interface: they get to a secure site by clicking on a link, and thus are fooled into thinking that they are using HTTPS when in fact they are using HTTP.

Internet Protocol Security ( IPsec ) was originally developed for IPv6, but found widespread deployment first in IPv4, into which it was back-engineered.

The monolithic Transmission Control Program was later divided into a modular architecture consisting of the Transmission Control Protocol at the connection-oriented layer and the Internet Protocol at the internetworking ( datagram ) layer.

Furthermore, Quakes main innovation — the capability to play a deathmatch ( competitive gameplay between living opponents instead of against computer-run characters ) over the Internet ( especially through the add-on QuakeWorld ) seared the title into the minds of gamers as another smash hit.

In 2012, Postel was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

In 2006 he ventured into Internet businesses, including MyStore. com with Todd Meagher and Bebo founder Michael Birch.

On April 23, 2012 at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, one of ten in the Innovators category and thirty-three overall inductees.

Leet symbols, especially the number 1337, are Internet memes that have spilled over into popular culture.

Mapping messages into and out of MIME format is typically done automatically by an email client or by mail servers when sending or receiving Internet ( SMTP / MIME ) email.

As We May Think also predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication in addition to hypertext such as personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: " Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.