Internet News
Solid:
'true data ownership' project led by Tim Berners-Lee Federal
Communications Commission votes to weaken Net Neutrality rules 1st
of October, 2016: ICANN freed from U.S. government oversight
Latest / Aaron
Swartz: Was an American computer programmer and Internet activist ADSL Microfilters:
Equipped to a phone socket for standard broadband .Arpa
domain, managed by the IAB and ICANN Attenuation:
Describes the loss of signal strength on DSL connections Ben Segal:
Helped enable Europe's conversion to TCP/IP Broadband Internet Access (UK):
standard, mobile, superfact, and ultrafast Broadband Internet Connection:
Data Usage Allowance and Caps Broadband via
point-to-point radio signals CompuServe: OSP and early ISP that introduced the GIF image format Demon
Internet: They provided the first affordable commercial ISP service in the UK Dot
Com Bubble: Speculative bubble - in stocks related to the Internet
- that lasted until 2000 Douglas Engelbart: Developed the first working hypertext system Ed
Krol: managed the establishment NSFNET E.
Feinler: Member of the Internet Hall of Fame, former director of
the NIC Freeserve: the UK's first fully featured 'free' Internet Service Provider Internet
of things (IoT): Term referring to the inter-working of physical
items Ivan Sutherland:
Led the Information Processing Techniques Office from 1964-1966 Jean Armour Polly:
coined the phrase Surfing the Internet Jean-Francois Abramatic:
Chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium 1996-2001 Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott:
They conceived the idea of Usenet Lance Cottrell:
Founder of Anonymizer.com in 1996 New
generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) in 2016, 2017, and 2018 List
of UK Internet Services Providers (ISP) for 2019 and beyond LLU:
Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) at telephone exchanges Pipex:
The first independent commercial Internet Service Provider in the UK Plusnet:
ISP founded in 1997 as Plusnet Technologies Ltd Registering
a domain name with a ICANN accredited registrar Robert Braden:
Provided stewardship over the RFC series Root
zone file: The DNS root zone file is a small data set file (2,232,320
bytes) Root
name servers: The root servers serve the root zone of the Domain
Name System Ted Nelson:
Coined the term Hypertext Potential cost of ending a broadband contract early SNR:
Broadband (DSL): Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and SNR Margin UK ISPs:
Static and Dynamic IP Addresses Virgin Media: Provides a DOCSIS 3.0 cable broadband service in the UK