A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
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Is Wikipedia reliable?
I ask this question because in school, students are always told "do not quote wikipedia" or that "Do not believe everything you see on Wikipedia, we are teachers and we know when something is wrong there". (The latter being more common in my case)…
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Do all Wikipedia articles lead to Philosophy?
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in
the article text not in parenthesis or italics, and then repeat, you
will eventually end up at "Philosophy". - Randall Munroe, XKCD 903: Extended Mind (mouse-over text)
I…
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Did Stack Overflow cut the number of negative comments nearly in half between the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2019 and January 21, 2020?
I read on https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/21/scripting-the-future-of-stack-2020-plans-vision (mirror) (emphasis is mine, to match the question):
In the fourth quarter of 2019, we created a large task force made up of passionate community…
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Is there any evidence of a secret level of deeply-hidden web-pages called "Marianas Web"?
There is a rumour that there is an Internet-based network, similar to the dark web (not to be confused with the deep web) called Mariana's Web (after Marianas Trench.)
The Infographics Show discussed the rumours of its existence:
Marianas web the…
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Is the Deep Web orders of magnitude larger than the surface web?
For most internet users, the public web, accessible by search engines like Google, is the beginning and the end of the Internet. More savvy users understand that there are large numbers of sites that are not accessible by Google, and are accessible…
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Will there be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020?
According to this infographic in an article from BAE, they make the claim that the internet is predicted to have 50 billion non-human users by 2020.
Discounting the main purpose of the article, where do they get that claim from? Is this based in…
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Is the Perspectus Global "uncool emojis" survey real?
Daily Mail's article Thumb-down to the thumbs-up! Study reveals the cringeworthy emojis that are SO middle-aged and leave Gen Z youngsters rolling their eyes says
A spokesman for Perspectus Global said: 'Those who still use the thumbs up emoji in…
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How much rational is RationalWiki?
RationalWiki is a wikimedia platform based website which claimed purpose is (see its mainpage):
Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
Documenting the full range of crank ideas;
Explorations of authoritarianism and…
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Can all administrative procedures except getting married or getting divorced be done online in Estonia?
I have read this quote in http://www.businessinsider.com/guardtime-estonian-health-records-industrial-blockchain-bitcoin-2016-3:
Mike Gault, co-founder and CEO of Guardtime, told Business Insider: "The only thing that you can’t do online in Estonia…
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Was #itAintRape every used seriously to justify rape?
The #ItsNotRape hashtag has gotten a bit of attention for its supposed condoning of rape.
However, when I checked out the hashtag the only content I could find scanning quite a ways back were tweets basically saying that it is rape unless one has…
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Does speedtest.net give an unbiased answer?
Every time I use it, it always seems to give exactly the speed my ISP is advertising +-1%, whereas other services (that actually do something, but happen to report the speed at which they do so) have only half or less the speed. Also it doesn't seem…
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Are seven keys able to turn off the internet?
Are seven keys able to turn off the internet?
I had recently researched the possibility of turning off the internet, and found an explanation in another forum: How to take down the internet?
The distributed nature of the internet makes it really…
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