Outline of the Internet

See also: Index of Internet-related articles and Outline of search engines

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 –
    • Wikis –
• Voice over IP
• IPTV

Internet communication technology

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

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 by country –
    • Internet censorship circumvention –
• Internet law –

Internet organizations

Main articles: Internet organizations and Internet governance

• 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

See also

• Outline of information technology

External links

• "10 Years that changed the world"—WiReD looks back at the evolution of the Internet over last 10 years
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
• A comprehensive history with people, concepts and quotations
• CBC Digital Archives—Inventing the Internet Age
• How the Internet Came to Be
• Internet Explained
• Global Internet Traffic Report
• The Internet Society History Page
• RFC 801, planning the TCP/IP switchover
• Archive CBC Video from 1993 about the Internet
• "The beginners guide to the internet."
• "Warriors of the net - A movie about the internet."
• "The Structure of the Internet."