The Internet and Domain Name System
“Many people think the Internet is a thing, but it is more a concept, a designed concept…it is a layered concept, and it has many dimensions.”
– Pablo Hinojosa, Strategic Engagement Director, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
Fundamentals
Internet Impacts
On 11 May 2017, the Internet Society and Chatham House convened a roundtable discussion where a culturally and geographically diverse set of participants examined questions relating to how the internet has effected social norms, societies, and people’s daily lives.
Deep Web and Dark Web
Chapter Three of the report Impact of New Emerging Information and Communications Technology explores the rapid development of the dark web, its risk, details, and actions to take.
Cybersecurity
This report outlines strategies, roadmaps, reasons and the trajectory to Australia’s cyber security over the time horizon from 2023 to 2030.
Interpol provides details on what digital piracy is, potential cyber risks and how to navigate them.
Additional Resources
The Internet today is a widespread information infrastructure, the initial prototype of which is often called the National Information Infrastructure. Its history is complex and involves many aspects – technological, organisational, and community. This is intended as a brief, necessarily cursory overview of the Internet’s history, written by those who were instrumental in its design.
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they’ve often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don’t even realise.
HP provide a helpful infographic on how the internet works, and a brief history on its development.
The Internet Society is a non-profit global charity empowering people to keep the internet a force for good, open, globally connected, secure and trustworthy.