| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer network |
| Synonyms: | ARPANET, W3, WWW, World Wide Web, cyberspace, hyperspace, infobahn, information highway, information superhighway, national information infrastructure, online network, the Net, the Web |
| Notes: | Internet should be capitalized, but intranet should be lowercase; Internet was coined from inter(national) + (Arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of Arpanet, a US government information network (the Advanced Research Projects Agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with Soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science |
| Main Entry: | data highway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communications network |
| Synonyms: | I-bahn, Info Strada, Internet, Net, WWW, Web, World Wide Web, infobahn, information superhighway |
| Main Entry: | information superhighway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extensive electronic network |
| Synonyms: | I-bahn, Info Strada, Internet, National Information Infrastructure, Net, WWW, Web, World Wide Web, cyberspace, data highway, infobahn |
| Main Entry: | World Wide Web |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | major computer network |
| Synonyms: | Internet, Net, WWW, Web, cyberspace, hypertext documents, information server, information superhighway, the Net |