Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.
The internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks using standardized protocols that establish rules for network communication, enabling the complex web of relationships between matter and energy in a network to function predictably and efficiently.
External reference — all senses of the word “internet” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.
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