Internet

Use For: DARPA Internet, Internet (Computer network),

Broader Terms: Wide area networks (Computer networks),

Narrower Terms: Art and the Internet, Internet addresses, Language and the Internet, Libraries and the Internet, Literature and the Internet, Music and the Internet, Poetry and the Internet, Theater and the Internet, WAIS (Information retrieval system), Wireless Internet,

Related Terms: World Wide Web,

Editorial Notes:

• 94234135: Brown, S. The Internet via Mosaic and World Wide Web, c1994 (Although the World Wide Web is primarily used on a global scale as a part of the Internet, it is feasible for a two-machine network to run the WWW client/server software. Many corporations are looking into WWW as an inexpensive yet up-to-date method of handling hypermedia applications on a local area network.)
• ASTI; Hennepin; IAC; McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech.; Random House; Web. 3
• Byte. Feb. 1992, "Applying the Internet": p. 111-118.
• Engr. index: v. 89, pt. VII, p. 5071.
• OCLC Micro: v. 6, No. 4, Aug. 1990, p. 36-37 (Internet is an interconnected set of networks that is primarily North American in origin and use, but is increasingly developing connections to worldwide information resources. It started with ARPAnet, a wide-area experimental network connecting host and terminal servers)
• Quarterman, J.S. The Matrix, c1990: p. 278-345 (Internet is an internetwork of many networks all running the TCP/IP protocol suite, connected through gateways, and sharing common name and address spaces. It is large not only covering the United States, but also extending to Canada, Europe, and Asia)
• Work cat.: 92016450: Malamud, C. Exploring the Internet : a technical travelogue, c1993.

LC Classification: TK5105.875.I57

Created: 2000-04-28

Last Modified: 2000-05-31T10:28:23

Concept URI: http://lcsh.info/sh92002816#concept

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