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Russia's 'Sovereign Internet'
law launched on November 1st 2019 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
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AOL UK: Internet Service Provider launched in 1996 .Arpa
domain, managed by the IAB and ICANN 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 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 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 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 Virtual Private Network (VPN): secure tunnel to protect Internet traffic