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Internet Engineering Steering Group
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), made up of the IETF Chair and Area Directors, gives final approval of specifications as Internet Standards and charters the IETF's working groups.
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open, volunteer-based standards body that develops internet protocols like TLS 1.3 and QUIC through working groups, deciding by rough consensus rather than voting.
Internet exchange point
An Internet exchange point (IXP) is a shared network facility where more than two independent Autonomous Systems exchange Internet traffic directly, reducing transit costs, latency, and reliance on upstream providers.
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (IE), also known as Microsoft Internet Explorer, was Microsoft's web browser bundled with Windows, at its peak holding over 95% desktop share in 2002 before its 2022 retirement.
Internet Explorer 11
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is the last major version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, released in 2013 and retired as a desktop application on June 15, 2022.
Internet filter
An Internet filter, also known as content-control software or censorware, blocks access to specific websites or content, used by schools for safety and by governments for censorship.
Internet forum
An Internet forum, also called a message board or discussion board, is a website where participants hold asynchronous, threaded conversations organized around topics, descended from BBSes and Usenet.
Internet fraud
Internet fraud is deception via digital channels to steal money, data, or identities. Also called cyber-enabled fraud or online scams; includes phishing, romance, investment, and business email compromise scams, with $16.6 billion in US losses reported to the FBI in 2024.
internet game dâu
internet game dâu is a casino in Mỹ Tho, Tien Giang Province, southern Vietnam, listed in OpenStreetMap and MAPS.ME about 270 metres south of Công viên Vĩnh Tràng park near Vinh Trang Pagoda, and a landmark near the Cuu Long Hotel.
Internet Girl (song)
"Internet Girl" is a January 2, 2026 English-language dance-pop single by KATSEYE (캣츠아이), the HYBE x Geffen global girl group; produced by Mattman & Robin, it debuted at No. 29 on the Hot 100 and peaked at No. 24 in the UK.
Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a United Nations forum for annual multistakeholder dialogue on Internet policy, created by the 2005 Tunis Agenda and made permanent in 2025.
Internet Group Management Protocol
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is the protocol IPv4 hosts and routers use to report multicast group memberships, letting routers decide which networks receive multicast packets.
Internet homicide
Internet homicide: killings in which the internet or social media plays a role, as an encyclopedia, platform, trigger, marketplace, or meeting place for perpetrators. Studies find such cases largely replicate existing homicide forms, not unique crime types.
Internet in India
The Internet in India is the national system of internet access and regulation, with 969 million subscribers in March 2025, cheap mobile data, and frequent government shutdowns.
Internet in North Korea
Internet access in North Korea is restricted to a small elite, while most users are limited to Kwangmyong, a state-run intranet isolated from the global internet.
Internet Information Services
Internet Information Services, also known as Microsoft IIS, is a web server produced by Microsoft that runs on Windows and hosts websites, services, and applications over HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Internet Invitational
Internet Invitational: invite-only creator golf tournament by Barstool Sports and Bob Does Sports; 48 YouTube golfers at Big Cedar Lodge, Missouri, 2025; $1M purse won by Dalke, Ellis, Franke; season 2 October 2026, $4M.
Internet Key Exchange
Internet Key Exchange (IKE) is the protocol used to set up and maintain IPsec security associations, authenticating endpoints and negotiating keys; its current version, IKEv2, is specified in RFC 7296.
Internet meme
An Internet meme is a piece of digital content, usually an image with text, that users copy, imitate, and transform as it spreads rapidly online. Term coined by Dawkins (1976); defined by Shifman as families of related variants, distinct from virals.
Internet Message Access Protocol
The Internet Message Access Protocol, or IMAP, is an application-layer protocol that lets an email client access and manage mail stored on a server, so multiple devices see the same mailbox.
Internet music
Internet music: music created, distributed, or aesthetically shaped by the Internet, spanning network-based performance, file-sharing culture, internet-born genres like vaporwave and meme music, and platform-mediated streaming.
Internet of things
The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical objects, from thermostats and fitness monitors to connected cars, fitted with sensors and software to connect and exchange data.
Internet pornography
Internet pornography: sexually explicit content distributed online, also called online porn or web pornography. Covers tube and user-generated platforms, prevalence and effects research, and age-verification laws in the US, UK, France, and EU.
Internet privacy
Internet privacy, also called web privacy, is the ability to control how personal data is collected, shared, and used online, shaped by laws like the GDPR.
Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal network-layer protocol of the Internet, delivering datagrams from source to destination across interconnected packet-switched networks in IPv4 and IPv6 versions.
Internet protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite, commonly called TCP/IP, is the layered set of communication protocols that packages, addresses, routes, and delivers all data on the Internet.
Internet Protocol television
Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television and other multimedia services over managed IP networks, typically bundled with internet and voice as a triple-play offering.
Internet radio
Internet radio: continuous, scheduled audio broadcast over IP rather than radio spectrum, begun with Carl Malamud's Internet Talk Radio on MBONE, 1 April 1993; delivered via Icecast, SHOUTcast, or HLS with codecs such as MP3, AAC+, and Opus.
Internet rap
Internet rap, popularly called SoundCloud rap, is a hip hop genre born online in the 2010s via SoundCloud releases by artists like Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, defined by trap-based, punk- and metal-inflected sounds, internet rather than regional roots, and generational tension with traditional hip hop.
Internet Research Agency (Агентство интернет-исследований)
Internet Research Agency (Агентство интернет-исследований, IRA, Trolls from Olgino): St Petersburg Russian troll farm founded 2013, funded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, indicted by Mueller in 2018 for 2016 US election interference, disbanded 2023.