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Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. Opera has a stronger market share, however, on mobile devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, and personal digital assistants
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Lolcat or Cat Macro with white cat on laptop computer

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Timeline of computing 2020-present § 2024

July 5: Ransomware attack hits over 200 US companies, forces Swedish grocery chain to close

July 31: "Avast ye scurvy file sharers!": Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge

October 6: European Court of Justice says Facebook must remove 'illegal' posts globally

September 22: Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence

April 8: 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet

December 23: UK police locate missing Chinese teen Mei Chen, silent on details

October 29: Technology giant Microsoft completes acquisition of GitHub

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... that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff?

... that the album Dariacore took inspiration from Internet memes?

... that a verse by Kendrick Lamar for The Melodic Blue was leaked before the album's release and went viral as an Internet meme?

... that Syndicate was the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitch, beating League of Legends developer Riot Games to the record?

... that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces?

... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?

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August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. Although he is still enrolled in the Stanford doctoral program, Brin has suspended his Ph.D.
studies indefinitely while he is working at Google. Brin met Larry Page while they were both graduate students at Stanford, and they authored a paper together entitled a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."

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Image 1Robert Cailliau, Jean-François Abramatic, and Tim Berners-Lee at the tenth anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 21997 advertisement in State Magazine by the US State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamiliar Web (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 3
Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet)

Image 4The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from Internet access)

Image 5The NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 6Stamped envelope of Russian Post issued in 1993 with stamp and graphics dedicated to first Russian underwater digital optic cable laid in 1993 by Rostelecom from Kingisepp to Copenhagen (from History of the Internet)

Image 7Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet)

Image 8Wi-Fi logo (from Internet access)

Image 9
Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019
Source: Internet Systems Consortium. (from History of the Internet)

Image 10
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access
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Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access)

Image 12T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from History of the Internet)

Image 13Satellite Internet access via
VSAT in Ghana (from Internet access
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Image 14The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN (from History of the World Wide Web)

Image 15
BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from History of the Internet
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Image 16First Internet demonstration, linking the ARPANET, PRNET, and SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from History of the Internet)

Image 17
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from Internet access
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Image 18Internet Connectivity Access layer (from Internet access)

Image 19Wi-Fi range diagram (from Internet access)

Image 20
Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet
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Image 21Map of the
TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from History of the Internet
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Image 22
Mobile broadband Internet subscriptions in 2012
as a percentage of a country's population
Source: International Telecommunication Union. (from History of the Internet
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Image 23
Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from Internet access)

Image 24Where the WEB was born (from History of the World Wide Web)

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This Ken Starr report is now posted on the Internet. I bet Clinton's glad he put a computer in every classroom.
— Jay Leno, 1998

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...that the village of Denshaw in Greater Manchester (pictured) achieved international notoriety when spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?

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gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme
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...that
children's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends
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