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Internet - 5 thesaurus results
Main Entry: Internet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: computer network
Synonyms: World Wide Web, cyberspace, information superhighway, ARPANET, W3, WWW, hyperspace, infobahn, information highway, national information infrastructure, online network, the Net, the Web
Notes: Internet should be capitalized, but intranet should be lowercase; Internet was coined from inter(national) + (Arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of Arpanet, a US government information network (the Advanced Research Projects Agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with Soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science
Main Entry: cyberspace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: computer world
Synonyms: Internet, Web, World Wide Web, communications, data bank, electronic mail, information superhighway*, information technology, virtual reality, WWW, computer network, data network, electronic highway, email, global village, infobahn, information space, online community, virtual community, virtual library
Main Entry: data highway
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: communications network
Synonyms: Internet, Net, Web, World Wide Web, information superhighway, I-bahn, Info Strada, WWW, infobahn
Main Entry: information superhighway
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extensive electronic network
Synonyms: Internet, Net, Web, World Wide Web, cyberspace, data highway, I-bahn, Info Strada, National Information Infrastructure, WWW, infobahn
Main Entry: World Wide Web
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: major computer network
Synonyms: Internet, Net, Web, cyberspace, information superhighway, WWW, hypertext documents, information server, the Net
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