internet · digital

a system of linked connections through which users send and receive information using devices

Internet (noun) means: a system of linked connections through which users send and receive information using devices. It emerges from system, links, data, device: the organized system uses connected links and devices to enable users to send and receive information. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 10, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The 1983 launch of NSFNET connected academic institutions across the United States, expanding access beyond military use. computing
• Iran's National Information Network routed domestic traffic through local servers during the 2019 internet shutdown. institutions
• Undersea fiber-optic cables like MAREA, completed in 2018, carry data between Virginia and Spain at 160 terabits per second. engineering

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

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