The Internet

The global system of interconnected computer networks that enables communication, information exchange, and digital services. The claims reference it as a transformative technological platform affecting social dynamics (ending isolation for racists, enabling terrorism training), with origins in US defense and NSF supercomputing infrastructure, and as an extended substrate for economic activity (the Internet of Things) and civic life.

Claims that use this term

• The Internet ended the social isolation that once constrained racists
• The Internet turned terrorism from recruitment toward practical do-it-yourself training
• The Internet emerged from US defense and NSF supercomputing infrastructure.
• The Internet of Things extends capital extraction into post-purchase consumption
• The Internet cannot have caused America’s civic decline.
• The Internet is the first mass medium lacking gatekeepers