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(computing) The conceptual space within which software agents operate and interact.
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(Internet) A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.
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(computing, idiomatic, figuratively, humorous) To overwhelm a web server through organic user-driven demand, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.
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Dating facilitated by computer networking, the partners typically being matched up by computer.
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(computing) The research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration, visualization etc. over the Internet.
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(computing) The sphere of digital information.
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(Internet) The portion of the Deep Web hosted on darknets (“restricted networks”).
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(Internet) A network of computers that can only be accessed using special software, configuration, or authorization, usually characterized by the anonymization of users, participating hosts, or both.
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(Internet) A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.
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(computing, Internet) Deep Web
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(computing, Internet, proscribed) The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).
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Alternative form of Deep Net [(computing, Internet) Deep Web]
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(Internet, informal) An Internet domain name in which the top-level domain (such as a country code) can be understood as part of the name rather than the usual suffix.
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(Internet) The buying and selling of domain names.
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A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
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(idiomatic, dated) the internet
n
(Internet) The distributed social network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.
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(Internet, historical) An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.
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(Internet) The world of information available via the Gopher protocol.
adj
Going beyond the usual level of personal interaction; associated with a model of interpersonal communication according to which computer-mediated communication has advantages over traditional face-to-face interaction.
n
(Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
adj
(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of incoming. [Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.]
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(dated, computing) The information superhighway.
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The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access and disruption.
n
(slang) Alternative spelling of interweb [(Internet slang, humorous, often in the plural) The Internet.]
v
(intransitive, Internet, informal) To use the Internet; specifically, to search for information using the Internet.
n
Alternative form of net art [(art) A form of new media art distributed via the Internet.]
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Alternative spelling of Internet cafe [A place where one can use a computer with Internet access for a fee.]
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Synonym of Internet of Things
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The online part of an organization, normally including a website, and often links from social networking sites or directories
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(Internet) A protocol for instant communication via the Internet. Users connect to a network and join channels (chat rooms) where they can converse in typed text with other participants.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the Internet.
n
The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
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(Internet) A phrase or epithet, particularly one intended to be witty, inserted in quotation marks between one's first and last names—or elsewhere by or in one's name, if this is not possible—at the end of a post.
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(Internet slang, humorous, often in the plural) The Internet.
n
(computing, Internet) Deep Web
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(Internet, informal, humorous) The World Wide Web, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.
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(Internet) The keeping of a lifestream.
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(Internet, initialism) no text; used as the body of a forum message where the title contains all that the poster wishes to say
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(Internet) Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.
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(computing, informal) The Internet.
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(Internet) A member of the community of Internet users.
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(Internet) A technical glitch encountered when two or more IRC servers lose their connection to each other, dividing the network into a number of isolated groups of users.
adv
Alternative spelling of online [While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.]
n
(Internet slang) Those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.
adj
Connected to the Internet.
adv
(Internet slang, text messaging, exam mark schemes) Or words to that effect.
n
a desktop environment that is accessible from the Internet
n
Alternative spelling of postinternet [(often attributive) Society and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet, especially in arts and criticism.]
adj
(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
n
(Internet, business) The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.
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A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
adj
(informal) Being a major user of communication technologies.
n
(Northern England, informal or humorous) The Internet.
n
(text messaging) Abbreviation of textspeak. [(informal) The abbreviated, simplified form of language used in text messages, which often elides vowels and omits punctuation and capitalisation.]
n
Alternative form of webchat [A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.]
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