Outline of the Internet

See also: Index of Internet-related articles

The following hierarchical outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.

The Internet is the 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 –

Internet communication

Internet infrastructure

• Critical Internet infrastructure –
• Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems –
• Internet access –
  • Broadband Internet access –
  • Internet access in the United States –
• Internet service provider –
• Internet backbone –
• Internet exchange point (IXP) –
• Internet standard –
  • Request for Comments (RFC) –

Types of Internet communication

• Email –
• File transfer –
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) –
• Telnet –
• Usenet newsgroups –

Online chat

Online chat –

• Instant messaging (IM) –
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC) –
  • Instant Messaging Services –

World Wide Web

World Wide Web (WWW) –

• Web 2.0 –
• Web browser –
  • List of web browsers –

Websites

Website –

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) –
  • Document object model (DOM) –
  • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) –
    • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) –
    • Dynamic HTML (DHTML) –
    • eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) –
• Javascript –
  • AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) –

Website types

• Web portal –
• Archive site –
  • List of Web archiving initiatives –
• Wiki –
  • List of the largest wikis –
• Social networking service –
  • List of social networking websites –
• Video hosting service –
  • List of video sharing websites –

Web content

Web content –

• Electronic journal –
  • List of journals available free online –
• Flash animation –
• Webcomic –
  • List of webcomics –
• Search –
  • List of search engines –
• Web directory –
  • List of web directories –
• Academic databases and search engines –
• Internet radio –
• Internet phone –
• Internet television (IPTV) –

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

Main article: History of the Internet

• Timeline of popular Internet services
• History of the World Wide Web
• Timeline of web browsers
• Timeline of Internet conflicts
• Timeline of hypertext technology
• History of packet switching –

• ARPANET –
• Computer Science Network (CSNET) –
• National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) –
• very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) –
• Network access point (NAP) –
• Federal Internet Exchange (FIX) –
• Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) –

Internet politics

• Freedom of information –
  • Internet freedom –
    • Internet privacy –
• Censorship –
  • Censorship by country –
  • Internet censorship –
    • Content control software –
    • Internet censorship by country –
    • Internet censorship circumvention –
• Internet law –

Internet culture

• Blogging, Blog, or Online diary –
  • History of blogging –
  • List of blogs –
  • Microblogging –
  • Political blog –
  • Prison blogs –
• Cyberslacking –
• List of blogging terms –
• Internet democracy –
• Internet friendship –
• List of Internet phenomena –
• Internet pornography –
• Internet romance –
• Internet slang –
• Internet time –
• Internet troll –
• Psychological effects of Internet use –
• Sociology of the Internet –
• Virtual community –
  • List of virtual communities –

Internet organizations

Main articles: Internet organizations and Internet governance

• Domain name registry or Network Information Center (NIC) –
  • Independent Domain Registries –
• 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

See also

Internet portal

• 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 Circa 1990 about the Internet
• "The beginners guide to the internet."
• "Warriors of the net - A movie about the internet."