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It is the Arpanet network that will be at the origin the Internet. It was established in 1969 by the United States Department of Defense. As Mark (1999) mentions, the Internet has several characteristics including the decentralization of transmissions, which means that when a line of communication becomes inoperable the two remote machines will search for a new path to transfer the data (the circuit can start on the East Coast of Canada, through the province of Ontario, and finally lead to Saskatchewan). Arpanet has a special mode of communication between computers; Internet Protocol [IP]. [IP] works as a sort of electronic envelope into which data are put. In January 1994, the vice president of the United States, Al Gore, for the first time used the term “information highway” to describe the American project to construct a national network of modern communication. The network as we know it has been promoted by a group of research institutes and universities under the direction of...

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  1. Laboratoire ORACLE – Observatoire Réunionnais des Arts, des Civilisations et des Littératures dans leur Environnement] Université de la Réunion Saint‐Denis France, Montpellier, France

    Marcienne Martin

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Martin, M. (2018). Internet: Language. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_120-1

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