Internet & Communication, TEL-VER
The development of the World Wide Web had a massive impact on the ways in which people interact and communicate, ultimately paving the way for the heavily interconnected world that we live in today. Although Internet communication dominates in many spheres of life, other means of communication remain no less important.
Internet & Communication Encyclopedia Articles By Title
telecommunications media
telecommunications media, equipment and systems—metal wire, terrestrial and satellite radio, and optical fibre—employed......
telecommunications network
telecommunications network, electronic system of links and switches, and the controls that govern their operation,......
Telefónica SA
Telefónica SA, Spanish company that is one of the world’s leaders in the telecommunications industry. Headquarters......
Telegram
Telegram, cloud-based messaging app owned by Russian entrepreneurs Pavel and Nikolai Durov. Telegram users can......
telegraph
telegraph, any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Many......
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German composer of the late Baroque period, who wrote both sacred and secular music......
telemetry
telemetry, highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote......
telephone
telephone, an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. The telephone......
- Introduction
- Dialing, Rotary, Push-Button
- Invention, Alexander Graham Bell, Communication
- Invention, Technology, History
- Network, Communication, Technology
- Electronic Switching, Networking, Communication
- Signaling, Communication, Networks
- Transmission, Signals, Networks
- Analog, Digital, Transmission
- Overseas Transmission
teleprinter
teleprinter, any of various telegraphic instruments that transmit and receive printed messages and data via telephone......
Television
Television (TV), a form of mass media based on the electronic delivery of moving images and sound from a source......
- Introduction
- Electronic Systems, Broadcasting, Components
- Color, Broadcast, CRT
- Digital, HD, Streaming
- Video, Audio, Signals
- Resolution, HD, 4K
- Scanning, Interlacing, Refresh Rate
- Picture Signal, Broadcasting, Technology
- Resolution, Frequency, Compression
- NTSC, Color, Compatible
- European Colour Systems
- Transmission, Reception, Technology
- Broadcasting, Signals, Networks
- Satellite, Digital, HD
- Receiver Circuits, Components, Technology
- Cameras, Displays, Technology
- Picture Tubes, Cathode Ray, Resolution
- Shadow Masks, Aperture Grilles
- Plasma, Display, Panels
- Video Discs, Broadcasting, Technology
- Picture Recording, Video Signals, Cameras
telex
telex, international message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters connected by a system of......
Telmex SA
Telmex SA, company that owns and operates most of Mexico’s telecommunications system. Headquarters are in Mexico......
Telnet
Telnet, networking protocol used for remotely accessing a computer system. The first version of Telnet resulted......
Tencent
Tencent, Internet and technology-oriented holding company based in Shenzhen, China, and best known for its messaging......
TeraGrid
TeraGrid, former American integrated network of supercomputing centres joined for high-performance computing. TeraGrid,......
Terman, Frederick Emmons
Frederick Emmons Terman was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to electronics research......
TeX
TeX, a page-description computer programming language developed during 1977–86 by Donald Knuth, a Stanford University......
texting
texting, act of sending short messages with cell phones, usually using the Short Messaging Service (SMS). SMS was......
The Brill Building: Assembly-Line Pop
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll.......
The colonization of Africa: An interactive map
Though European powers had long been attracted to Africa, their interest in the continent’s land and resources......
thin client
thin client, computer terminal or software application providing access over a network to a dedicated server. Unlike......
Thomas, Isaiah
Isaiah Thomas was a radical anti-British printer and journalist who published the Massachusetts Spy from 1770 to......
Thompson, Jim
Jim Thompson was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his paperback pulp novels narrated by seemingly......
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips
Silvanus Phillips Thompson was a British physicist and historian of science known for contributions in electrical......
Thomson Corporation
Thomson Corporation, Canadian publishing and information services company. Its specialty reporting covers the fields......
Thomson, Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson was a Canadian-born British publisher, owner of The Times of London and......
Thorpe, Rose Alnora Hartwick
Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for a single narrative poem that......
Threads
Threads, text-based social media platform created by Meta that allows users to exchange perspectives and post updates......
three laws of robotics
three laws of robotics, rules developed by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who sought to create an ethical......
Thurn and Taxis postal system
Thurn and Taxis postal system, imperial and, after 1806, private postal system operated in western and central......
ticker
ticker, high-speed means of reporting information on securities transactions. It provides the stock symbol, number......
TikTok
TikTok, social media platform designed for creating, editing, and sharing short videos between 15 seconds and three......
time-sharing
time-sharing, in data processing, method of operation in which multiple users with different programs interact......
Tintype
Tintype, positive photograph produced by applying a collodion-nitrocellulose solution to a thin, black-enameled......
Today in History—April 15: The Titanic’s Final Moments and Messages
“Fine voyage fine ship feeling fine what news.” That was a telegram sent from the Titanic by Isidor Straus, co-owner......
Today in History—August 16: The First Official Transatlantic Telegraph
The first successful transatlantic telegraph exchange between heads of state occurred on this day in 1858. It marked......
Today in History—August 1: The Music Video Revolution Begins
At 12:01 am on August 1, 1981, a new cable television channel flickered to life with the words “Ladies and gentlemen,......
Today in History—December 24: Before Spotify, There Was Tinfoil
Thomas Edison gave the first demonstration of his phonograph in early December 1877, hauling his little hand-crank......
Today in History—February 17: Man Versus Machine—Who Would Win?
On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated IBM’s Deep Blue computer—but it wasn’t as easy......
Today in History—January 2: “I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”
On this day in 1839 French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre made the first image of the Moon. Probably. No one......
Today in History—July 1: The ZIP Code’s Rocky Introduction
On this day in 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department asked Americans to do something they have never particularly......
Today in History—July 26: The USPS’s Revolutionary Origins
The “shot heard ’round the world” was fired on April 19, 1775. On May 10, the same day the Second Continental Congress......
Today in History—June 13: The Pentagon Papers Reach the Public
On this day in 1971, The New York Times began publishing parts of a leaked government report about decades of U.S.......
Today in History—June 8: The Day the USPS Redefined Airmail
Planes, trains, automobiles, and…missiles? Hey, the mail must go through. In the history of the United States Postal......
Today in History—March 13: Uncle Sam’s Debut in an American Cartoon
Everyone knows Uncle Sam: the tall hat, the striped trousers, the pointed finger. He feels as old as the country......
Today in History—March 17: When Russia’s Masterpieces Came to America
On this day in 1941, U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a dedication speech to some 6,000 guests in the rotunda......
Today in History—May 12: Jimi Hendrix Bent Reality—and Rock Followed
While others were mastering the blues, Jimi Hendrix was rewiring rock. Released on this day in May 1967, Are You......
Today in History—May 2: A War Changed by the Blink of an Eye
American Comdr. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., had been held by the North Vietnamese for 10 months when he met with a......
Today in History—May 3: The World’s First Spam Email Is Sent
On this day in 1978, a marketing manager for a Massachusetts computer company unknowingly made history: He sent......
Today in History—May 4: When Buddhist Scripture Was Written on 729 Giant Tablets
On this day in 1868, the Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar, was completed. Inside and around it was a book unlike......
Today in History—November 1: Ebony Magazine Is Published
What if there were a magazine like Life or Look with beautiful, immersive photography, comprehensive coverage of......
Today in History—October 29: The Ballpoint Pen Arrives
It wasn’t for everyone—or maybe it was. With some 5,000 people showing up at Gimbels department store in New York......
Today in History—September 18: KISS Makes a Solo Statement
By 1978, KISS wasn’t simply a band. It was an empire—platform boots, face paint, pyrotechnics, comic books, lunch......
Today in History—September 2: The Formation of the Principality of Sealand
There is a micronation on a fortress at sea off the coast of Great Britain, and the British government once considered......
Today in History—September 9: The First Literal Computer Bug
On September 9, 1947, the Harvard Mark II, one of the earliest computers, encountered a bug. Quite literally. People......
Tokutomi Sohō
Tokutomi Sohō was an influential Japanese historian, critic, journalist, and essayist and a leading nationalist......
tombo
tombo, (Portuguese: “register of grants”), register of landholdings in Ceylon, compiled in the early 17th century......
Tonson, Jacob
Jacob Tonson was a publisher in London who issued (1697) John Dryden’s translation of Virgil, believed to be the......
topographic map
topographic map, cartographic representation of the Earth’s surface at a level of detail or scale intermediate......
Tor (network)
Tor (network), a free software platform designed to protect users’ identities while they are browsing the Internet......
Torrence, Ridgely
Ridgely Torrence was a U.S. poet and playwright who wrote some of the first serious, accurate dramas of black life.......
Tory, Geoffroy
Geoffroy Tory was a publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible......
trade publications
Trade publications have long offered specialized information to readers working in a specific trade, industry,......
tradwife
Tradwife is a term for a married woman who embraces traditional gender roles and values and tends to share the......
transfer printing
transfer printing, method of decorating pottery by using an inked, engraved copperplate to make a print on paper......
transposition cipher
transposition cipher, simple data encryption scheme in which plaintext characters are shifted in some regular pattern......
trojan
trojan, a type of malicious computer software (malware) disguised within legitimate or beneficial programs or files.......
Truth Social
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Tumblr
Tumblr, social media microblogging site founded in 2007 by American Web developer David Karp. Tumblr is notable......
Turing test
Turing test, in artificial intelligence, a test proposed (1950) by the English mathematician Alan M. Turing to......
Turing, Alan
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis,......
Turner, Ted
Ted Turner was an American broadcasting entrepreneur, philanthropist, sportsman, and environmentalist who founded......
turntable
turntable, in sound reproduction, rotating platform that carries a phonograph record. Turntables commonly revolve......
Twitch
Twitch, American online live streaming platform where users can watch video game footage. Founded in 2011, Twitch......
typesetting
typesetting, the setting of type for use in any of a variety of printing processes. See...
typewriter
typewriter, any of various machines for writing characters similar to those made by printers’ types, especially......
typography
typography, the design, or selection, of letter forms to be organized into words and sentences to be disposed in......
U.S.-China artificial intelligence race
The global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is increasingly defined by competition between the United States......
UHF
UHF, conventionally defined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, encompassing radiations having a wavelength......
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam, popular symbol for the United States, usually associated with a cartoon figure having long white hair......
Unicode
Unicode, international character-encoding system designed to support the electronic interchange, processing, and......
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American package and document delivery company operating worldwide. Its......
United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service (USPS), independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government......
UNIVAC
UNIVAC, one of the earliest commercial computers. After leaving the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the......
Universal Postal Union
Universal Postal Union (UPU), specialized agency of the United Nations that aims to organize and improve postal......
UNIX
UNIX, multiuser computer operating system. In the late 20th century UNIX was widely used for Internet servers,......
Updike, Daniel Berkeley
Daniel Berkeley Updike was an American printer and scholar, founder in 1893 of the distinguished Merrymount Press......
URL
URL, compact string of numbers, letters, and symbols that a computer uses to find a resource on a network and act......
USB
USB, technology used to connect computers to peripheral devices, such as computer mouses and USB flash drives.......
USB flash drive
USB flash drive, small portable data storage device that uses flash memory and has an integrated universal serial......
USENET
USENET, an Internet-based network of discussion groups. USENET began in 1979 when two graduate students at Duke......
user-created content
User-created content, also called user-generated content, describes various kinds of content produced by Internet......
V-chip
V-chip, an electronic device designed to block content on television. In a number of countries, including the United......
Vail, Alfred Lewis
Alfred Lewis Vail was an American telegraph pioneer and an associate and financial backer of Samuel F.B. Morse......
Vail, Theodore Newton
Theodore Newton Vail was an American executive who twice headed the Bell Telephone Company at critical times and......
valknut
valknut, Old Norse symbol composed of three interlocking triangles. One version of the valknut, called tricursal,......
Van Allen, James A.
James A. Van Allen was an American physicist, whose discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, two zones of radiation......
vCard
vCard, electronic business card that automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional......
Verizon Communications Inc.
Verizon Communications Inc. is a U.S. telecommunications company based in New York City. Founded in 2000 through......