Outline of the Internet

Updated on Jan 31, 2024

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.

Internet – worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of interconnected smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.

Essence of the Internet

Computer network, Computer networking –

Internetworking –

Packet switching –

Wide area network –

data transmission –

Internet features

Hosting –

File hosting –

Web hosting

E-mail hosting

DNS hosting

Game servers

Wiki farms

World Wide Web –

Websites –

Web applications –

Webmail –

Online retail sales –

Online auctions –

Webcomics –

Wikis –

Voice over IP

IPTV

Internet infrastructure

Critical Internet infrastructure –

Internet access –

Internet access in the United States –

Internet service provider –

Internet backbone –

Internet exchange point (IXP) –

Internet standard –

Request for Comments (RFC) –

Internet communication protocols

Internet Protocol Suite –

Link Layer

Link Layer –

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP/InARP) –

Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) –

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) –

Tunneling protocol (Tunnels) –

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) –

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) –

Media Access Control –

Ethernet –

Digital subscriber line (DSL) –

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) –

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) –

Internet Layer

Internet Layer –

Internet Protocol (IP) –

IPv4 –

IPv6 –

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) –

ICMPv6 –

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) –

IPsec –

Transport Layer

Transport Layer –

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) –

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) –

Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) –

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) –

Resource reservation protocol (RSVP) –

Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) –

Application Layer

Application Layer –

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) –

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) –

Domain Name System (DNS) –

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) –

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) –

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) –

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) –

LDAP –

Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) –

Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) –

Network Time Protocol (NTP) –

Post Office Protocol (POP) –

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) –

Remote procedure call (RPC) –

Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) –

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) –

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) –

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) –

SOCKS –

Secure Shell (SSH) –

Telnet –

Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) –

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) –

History of the Internet

Predecessors

SAGE –

ARPANET –

Mark I network

Merit Network

CYCLADES

Computer Science Network (CSNET) –

National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) –

History of Internet components

History of packet switching –

very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) –

Network access point (NAP) –

Federal Internet Exchange (FIX) –

Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) –

Timeline of Internet conflicts

Internet usage

Global Internet usage

Internet traffic

List of countries by number of Internet users

List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users

List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions

Fiber to the premises by country

List of countries by number of Internet hosts

Languages used on the Internet

List of countries by IPv4 address allocation

Internet Census of 2012

Internet politics

Internet privacy –

Censorship –

Censorship by country –

Internet censorship –

Content control software –

Internet censorship and surveillance by country

Internet censorship circumvention –

Internet law –

Internet organizations

Domain name registry or Network Information Center (NIC) –

Private sub-domain registry –

Internet Society (ISOC) –

InterNIC (historical) –

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) –

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) –

Internet Activities Board (IAB) –

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) –

Non-profit Internet organizations

Advanced Network and Services (ANS) (historical) –

Internet2 –

Merit Network –

North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) –

Commercial Internet organizations

Amazon.com –

ANS CO+RE (historical) –

Google –

Internet people

Internet pioneers

Cultural and societal implications of the Internet

Sociology of the Internet

Digital sociology

Cyberculture

References

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