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Labour proposes free
universal Internet access for all UK homes Happy
Birthday, the Internet becomes 50 years old 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 AOL UK: Internet Service Provider launched in 1996 .Arpa
domain, managed by the IAB and ICANN Ben Segal:
Helped enable Europe's conversion to TCP/IP Broadband Internet Access (UK):
standard, mobile, superfact, and ultrafast 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 Easynet and Cyberia: Early UK Internet Service Provider and Cybercafe 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 Jim
Ellis and Tom Truscott: Jointly conceived the idea of Usenet List
of UK Internet Services Providers (ISP) for 2019 and beyond New
generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) in 2016, 2017, and 2018 PSINet: One of the first ISPs to sell Internet connectivity 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 Sky
Broadband: Launched in 2006, after its acquisition of Easynet in 2005 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 UUNet: One of the earliest commercial Internet Service Providers Virgin Media: Provides a DOCSIS 3.0 cable broadband service in the UK