The key to standardizing software functions on the Internet, Microsoft has said, lies in application program interfaces, or A.P.I.'s, the digital templates that enable developers to create many varieties of software that all share a common look and a common way of performing many functions, like printing, manipulating on-screen windows and constructing menus.
Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet.
We presume that problematic Internet users are more likely to use the interactive functions of the Internet, such as on-line games and chatting, which might satisfy user's needs and actually facilitate pathological use [34].
Her book "The Internet of Garbage" focuses on online harassment and the threat it poses to the regular functions of the internet.
The Internet is in the midst of a kind of 'constitutional crisis,' with contending parties struggling, largely out of public view, for control of the'root', the one central point of authority on which the functioning of the Internet depends.
While other countries have called for the United States to turn over the keys to the system, many businesses around the world, dependent on the smooth functioning of the Internet for their livelihood, have expressed concern about what form the new organization will take.
The economic impact would be enormous and immediate". He believes Russia is conflict-proofing itself, "seeking to reduce its reliance on the correct functioning of the internet by setting up its own parallel systems", and rehearsing for what would happen if its internet connection collapsed.
So this was a case where the US government - through affirmative steps and/or approving acquiescence to criminal, sophisticated cyber-attacks - all but destroyed the ability of an adversarial group, convicted of no crime, to function on the internet.
And let's not even go into the ethical problem that a small slice of African land is now in the hands of a bloke whose only real skill is that he knows his way around the search function on the internet and lives to fulfil his daughter's fantasies.
The same platform that Blaine built and that is occasionally seen live and functioning on the Internet, that is.
Since then, hackers affiliated with Anonymous even threatened to "shut the Internet down on March 31" by attacking servers that perform switchboard functions for the Internet.
