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  2. List of international common standards - Wikipedia

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    A list of international common and basic technical standards, which have been established worldwide and are related by their frequent and widespread use.These standards are conventionally accepted as best practice and used globally by industry and organizations.

  3. Internet Standard - Wikipedia

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    If an RFC is part of a proposal that is on the Standards Track, then at the first stage, the standard is proposed and subsequently organizations decide whether to implement this Proposed Standard. After the criteria in RFC 6410 is met (two separate implementations, widespread use, no errata etc.), [12] the RFC can advance to Internet Standard.

  4. Hypercommunication - Wikipedia

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    Baudrillard discussed hypercommunication as the acceleration of everyday communication which eliminates all distance, mystery, and meaning. [3] The term is also used to describe the accelerated communication patterns emerging from the widespread use of smartphones in the 21st century. [4]

  5. Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources - Wikipedia

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    But, for example, it's becoming common to place intensifying adjectives in front of unique, as in very unique, indicating that in popular use unique is understood to be inexact, and that pattern is true for many words in widespread use. A definition for nice normally is not exactly precise and that has not stopped most people from saying the ...

  6. Digital divide - Wikipedia

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    [88] A digital immigrant is defined as "a person born or brought up before the widespread use of digital technology." [89] The internet became officially available for public use on January 1, 1983; anyone born before then has had to adapt to the new age of technology. [90] On the contrary, people born after 1983 are considered "digital natives".

  7. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    In 1984, the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on computer and Internet use in the United States; their first survey showed that 8.2% of all U.S. households owned a personal computer in 1984, and that households with children under the age of 18 were nearly twice as likely to own one at 15.3% (middle and upper middle class households ...

  8. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices.

  9. GSM - Wikipedia

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    Picocells are small cells whose coverage diameter is a few dozen meters; they are mainly used indoors. Femtocells are cells designed for use in residential or small-business environments and connect to a telecommunications service provider's network via a broadband-internet connection. Umbrella cells are used to cover shadowed regions of ...