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  2. Philip Emeagwali - Wikipedia

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    Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954. He was raised in Onitsha in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. His early schooling was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War.

  3. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    Robert Cailliau, 1995. Robert Cailliau ( French: [kaˈjo], born 1947), is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, working with Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN, developed the World Wide Web. [225] In 2012 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

  4. Dark web - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines. The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. [11] Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. [12]

  5. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [ 24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.

  6. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...

  7. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) [ a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [ b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...

  8. Thomas Mensah (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    MAC Eminent Engineer. Fellow National Academy of Inventors. Thomas Owusu Mensah (1950 – 27 March 2024) was a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. [2] He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. [3]

  9. Stereotypes of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. Minstrel shows became a popular form of theater during the nineteenth century, which portrayed African Americans in stereotypical and often disparaging ways, some of the most common being that they are ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. [10]