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The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that comprises private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information services and resources, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, discussion groups, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing.

Most traditional communication media, including telephone, radio, television, paper mail, newspapers, and print publishing, have been transformed by the Internet, giving rise to new media such as email, online music, digital newspapers, news aggregators, and audio and video streaming websites. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interaction through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking services. Online shopping has also grown to occupy a significant market across industries, enabling firms to extend brick and mortar presences to serve larger markets. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. (Full article...)

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Norid AS is the registry responsible for administering the Norwegian country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs): .no (Norway), .sj (Svalbard and Jan Mayen), and .bv (Bouvet Island). By agreement with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Norid is delegated the exclusive authority to assign, administer and register domain names under these three top-level domains. Of these three top-level domains, second-level domains may only be registered under .no, while use of .sj and .bv is presently reserved. (Full article...)

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Watching and blogging on election night, November 2004
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A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

The 2023 Capita data breach was a ransomware and data exfiltration incident affecting Capita, a British business process outsourcing and professional services provider, and millions of people whose data it processed. In late March 2023 hackers gained access to Capita's systems, stole large volumes of client and staff information and then deployed ransomware, disrupting internal IT services and causing prolonged outages across parts of the business.

Major clients, including the Universities Superannuation Scheme, later confirmed that personal data about hundreds of thousands of pension scheme members may have been compromised. By the end of May 2023, at least 90 organisations had notified the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of personal data breaches linked to the incident, and Capita estimated that the attack would cost up to Β£25 million in recovery and remediation expenses.

An investigation by the ICO concluded that personal data relating to around 6.6 million individuals, including special category data such as health and criminal record information, had been exfiltrated, prompting hundreds of complaints and a High Court multi-party claim on behalf of more than 8,000 people.:β€Š7–8β€Š In October 2025 the ICO fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Limited a combined Β£14 million for failures to implement appropriate security measures under the UK GDPR.:β€Š5β€Š (Full article...)

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  • ... that "the Boshfather" was deported from Australia in October 2025?
  • ... that a website has ranked a giant Santa statue as the world's most "unintentionally creepy Christmas ornament"?
  • ... that Ben Franklin was inspired by an internet meme?
  • ... that the YouTuber behind Stop Killing Games compared video-game publishers shutting down online-only games to silent-era film studios "burning their own films ... to recover the silver content"?
  • ... that, in a civil case between Mark Aldridge and a shop owner, South Australia's district court found that a person can be liable for the defamatory comments of others on their social media posts?
  • ... that Umamusume character Haru Urara became so popular that a website donating grass to feed her namesake racehorse crashed?

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Mike Sendall, Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

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I used to think the Net would change the world, but the world has changed the Net.
β€” Ken MacLeod, 2000

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