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    Internet metaphors provide users and researchers of the Internet a structure for understanding and communicating its various functions, uses, and experiences...
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    Internet-related articles Internet metaphors Internet video "Internets" Outline of the Internet See Capitalization of Internet Despite the name, TCP/IP...
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    literature Gopher (protocol), an early alternative to the WWW Internet metaphors Internet security Lists of websites Minitel, a predecessor of the WWW...
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    Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing net neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment...
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    similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. Analysts group metaphors with other types of figurative...
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    Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other...
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    Cyberspace (category History of the Internet)
    computer-simulated environment Branch, J. (2020). "What's in a Name? Metaphors and Cybersecurity." International Organization. Delfanti, Alessandro;...
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  • World portal Context collapse Globalization Information Revolution Internet metaphors The Society of the Spectacle Wyndham Lewis's 'America and Cosmic Man...
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    Web page (redirect from Internet page)
    together under a common domain name. The term "web page" is therefore a metaphor of paper pages bound together into a book. Each web page is identified...
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    having a single inventor, the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following people are Internet pioneers who have been recognized...
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  • streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline...
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  • Real life (category Internet terminology)
    the Internet to describe events, people, activities, and interactions occurring offline; or otherwise not primarily through the medium of the Internet. It...
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    Ruguanxue (category Political metaphors)
    as the Qing and Ming dynasties, Chinese netizens have used many other metaphors and references to enrich the discourse, such as comparing the Strait of...
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    the 1960s. The Internet in the United States of America in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today. Internet connections in the...
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    late 1970s." Of Gore's involvement in the then-developing Internet while in Congress, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn have also noted: As far back...
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  • disorder or a behavioral addiction. Problematic Internet pornography viewing is the viewing of Internet pornography that is problematic for an individual...
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    extinguished. Nakamura uses a metaphor of "after-images" to describe the cultural phenomenon of expressing identity on the internet. The idea is that any performance...
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    Law Journal (2003) Gore, Gibson, and Goldsmith: The Evolution of Internet Metaphors in Law and Commentary, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2002)...
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    Cute cat theory of digital activism (category Metaphors referring to cats)
    The cute cat theory of digital activism is a theory concerning Internet activism, Web censorship, and "cute cats" (a term used for any low-value, but popular...
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    as Internet companies merged or were acquired. Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com. Portal metaphors are...
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  • Big dick energy (category Metaphors referring to body parts)
    Retrieved 2024-04-11. Lieu, Johnny (2018-06-27). "'Big Dick Energy' is the internet's new term for a certain kind of swagger". Mashable. Archived from the original...
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  • You swan, he frog (category Metaphors referring to animals)
    blogger on Xiaohongshu that later spread to social media platform X. The metaphor of the swan and the frog has also gone viral, with a variety of memes juxtaposing...
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    Mystery meat navigation (category Metaphors referring to food and drink)
    Mystery meat navigation (also known as MMN) is a form of web navigation user interface whereby the target of each link is not visible until the user points...
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    on mainstream and social media, which promptly rose to the status of an internet phenomenon. BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser said that the result...
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  • Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History is a 2024 book by the British academic Martin Paul Eve. The book "calls attention to the digital-textual...
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  • San Diego Metaphors we live by (excerpt) George Lakoff and Mark Johnson examine metaphor and provide a synopsis of the conduit metaphor Programming...
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    and A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson. p. 262. Retrieved 9 January 2022 – via Internet Archive. david hume essays. Rajah, N.L. (13 August 2018). "The inexorable...
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    Online game (redirect from Internet games)
    the MMORPG community has developed a sub-culture with its own slang and metaphors, as well as an unwritten list of social rules and taboos. Separately,...
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    Down the rabbit hole (category Metaphors referring to rabbits and hares)
    the internet, the term has taken on the meaning of getting lost in a topic or researching one topic and ending up in another. It has become a metaphor for...
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    Boundless Informant Bullrun Pinwale Stingray SORM RAMPART-A Mastering the Internet Jindalee Operational Radar Network Selected agencies FVEY ASD CSE GCSB...
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