The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite ( TCP / IP ) to serve billions of users worldwide.

It defines the DNS protocol, a detailed specification of the data structures and communication exchanges used in DNS, as part of the Internet Protocol Suite.

Internet name servers and a communication protocol implement the Domain Name System.

* DUAL algorithm, or Diffusing update algorithm, used to update Internet protocol routing tables

An Ethertype field in each frame is used by the operating system on the receiving station to select the appropriate protocol module ( i. e. the Internet protocol module ).

The Freenet protocol is intended to be used on a network of complex topology, such as the Internet ( Internet Protocol ).

The Gopher protocol () is a TCP / IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

* Internet applications for smart devices through wireless application protocol ( WAP )

* Internet protocol IP.

The APN defines the services such as wireless application protocol ( WAP ) access, short message service ( SMS ), multimedia messaging service ( MMS ), and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.

HTTP is an application layer protocol designed within the framework of the Internet Protocol Suite.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure ( HTTPS ) is a widely used communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.

One optional download for WfW was the " Wolverine " TCP / IP protocol stack, which allowed for easy access to the Internet through corporate networks.

Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ) is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging ( chat ) or synchronous conferencing.

An Internet Standard is characterized by a high degree of technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet community.

Internet message access protocol ( IMAP ) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol ( POP ).

The Internet Message Access Protocol ( commonly known as IMAP ) is an Application Layer Internet protocol that allows an e-mail client to access e-mail on a remote mail server.

The Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO / IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the Internet protocol suite.

The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and similar networks, and generally the most popular protocol stack for wide area networks.

Postel was the RFC Editor from 1969 until his death, and wrote and edited many important RFCs, including RFC 791, RFC 792 and RFC 793, which define the basic protocols of the Internet protocol suite, and RFC 2223, Instructions to RFC Authors.

" Mozilla " is the every-day name for the free and open-source software project that was founded in 1998 in order to create a next-generation Internet suite for Netscape.

In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code for its popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite under a free software / open source license, the Netscape Public License.

PPP is commonly used as a data link layer protocol for connection over synchronous and asynchronous circuits, where it has largely superseded the older Serial Line Internet Protocol ( SLIP ) and telephone company mandated standards ( such as Link Access Protocol, Balanced ( LAPB ) in the X. 25 protocol suite ).

TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol ( IP ), and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP / IP.

* Transmission Control Protocol, one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite

The User Datagram Protocol ( UDP ) is one of the core members of the Internet protocol suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet.

W3C / IETF Standards ( over Internet protocol suite ):

* Comodo Internet Security, a freeware security suite developed by Comodo

# REDIRECT Internet protocol suite

** Internet protocol suite layers

# REDIRECT Internet protocol suite

Internet Protocol Security ( IPsec ) is a protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol ( IP ) communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session.

In particular, it helped to validate the design of the 4. 2BSD network subsystem by providing a second protocol suite, one which was significantly different from the Internet protocols ; by implementing both stacks in the same kernel, Berkeley researchers demonstrated that the design was suitable for more than just IP.

The gap in version sequence between IPv4 and IPv6 resulted from the assignment of number 5 to the experimental Internet Stream Protocol in 1979, which however was never referred to as IPv5.

The aggregation of multiple contiguous prefixes resulted in supernets in the larger Internet, which whenever possible are advertised as aggregates, thus reducing the number of entries in the global routing table.

Scholarly and commercial exchanges, increasingly communicated via the Internet, have also resulted in an exchange of terminology, including Hmu and A Hmao people identifying as Hmong and, to a lesser extent, Hmong people accepting the designation " Miao ," within the context of China.

The shooting resulted in an increased emphasis on school security, and a moral panic aimed at goth culture, social outcasts, gun culture, the use of pharmaceutical anti-depressants by teenagers, teenage Internet use and violent video games.

In the UK, the recent merger of NTL: Telewest and Virgin Mobile resulted in a company offering a quadruple play of cable television, broadband Internet, home telephone, and mobile telephone services.

It resulted in agreement on the Tunis Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, and the creation of the Internet Governance Forum.

As the Internet has grown in size, by some estimates doubling in number of users every eighteen months, economy of scale has resulted in increasingly large information conduits providing the longest distance and highest capacity backbone connections.

* In France, in July 2009, " trou du cul du web " ( eng :" The Asshole of the Internet ") returned as the first result the official website of French president Nicolas Sarkozy ; in September 2010, the same tactic resulted in President Sarkozy's Facebook page being the first result.

When computers and the Internet made work electronically portable, the forces of free market resulted in a global mobility of work in the services industry.

The subsequent refocusing on the IT services business ( which grew to nearly 50 % of the IBM's revenues ), the embrace of the Internet as a business phenomenon, and a broad effort to revive the company's culture are widely seen as having resulted in one of the most remarkable turnarounds in business history.

The two were referred to as the first superstar couple of the Internet age, and the pairing's popularity resulted in their being known by the portmanteau " Bennifer " ( for Ben and Jennifer ) to the media, as well as to fans using the name combination.

This resulted finally with the Leaf and Key fans moving away from 2ch and forming again on the PINKchannel Internet forum.

In the US, the shifting of resources from shortwave to Internet and television by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees U. S. international broadcasting, has also resulted in reduced broadcasting hours in the English language.

In 1998, the Federal Trade Commission took into account the lack of privacy of children on the Internet, which resulted in the creation of the Children Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ).

iReview was part of a reaction to the commercial success of the iMac that resulted in thousands of new computer owners suddenly having access to the Internet.

The rise of online social networking in the later 2000s, however, resulted in both an increase of Internet petition integration into social networks and an increase of visibility for such petitions ; Facebook, Change. org, Care2, Avaaz. org and other sites serve as examples of the integration of Internet petitions as a form of social media and user-generated content.

That has resulted in large-scale speculation over the ingredients, and several variations of possible drink recipes on the Internet.

In April 2011, the tests conducted by AV-Comparatives on BullGuard Internet Security resulted in high scores in detection and false positives.

His early work at Microsoft resulted in the Internet Explorer Search, History, and Favorites panes.

This plugin was eventually discontinued, as the inability to sandbox Python resulted in security concerns, though there was a later effort to revive it ( an updated alpha version for Internet Explorer, and Firefox and COLLADA support was considered ).