The Web & Communication, MIL-OPT
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.
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Yuri Milner is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques......
Minamoto Shitagō was a Japanese poet of the middle Heian period (794–1185). Although he was a descendant of the......
minicam, portable electronic video-camera unit. It consists of a lightweight hand-held camera, a backpack containing......
minicomputer, computer that was smaller, less expensive, and less powerful than a mainframe or supercomputer but......
Misinformation is the inadvertent spread of false information without intent to harm, while disinformation is false......
mobile telephone, portable device for connecting to a telecommunications network in order to transmit and receive......
modem, (from “modulator/demodulator”), any of a class of electronic devices that convert digital data signals into......
modulation, in electronics, technique for impressing information (voice, music, pictures, or data) on a radio-frequency......
Monster, American online employee-recruitment company, with headquarters in Maynard, Mass., and New York, N.Y.......
Michael Moorcock is a British science fiction and fantasy author who, as editor of the magazine New Worlds, led......
Ely Moore was an American journalist and politician who represented the interests of labour in the U.S. Congress.......
Nicholas Moore was one of the “New Apocalypse” English poets of the 1940s who reacted against the preoccupation......
Dom Moraes was an editor, essayist, biographer, and inveterate traveler who was one of the best-known English-language......
Piers Morgan is a British journalist and media figure who attracted controversy as a tabloid editor for his aggressive......
Morita Akio was a Japanese businessman who was cofounder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of......
Thomas Morley was a composer, organist, and theorist, and the first of the great English madrigalists. Morley held......
William Morris was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics,......
Morse Code, either of two systems for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by......
Samuel F.B. Morse was an American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph (1832–35). In 1838 he......
Sir Charles Moses was a British-born Australian broadcasting executive who headed the Australian Broadcasting Commission......
motherboard, printed circuit board (PCB) that connects all components of a general-purpose computer. A motherboard......
motion-picture camera, any of various complex photographic cameras that are designed to record a succession of......
mouse, hand-controlled electromechanical device for interacting with a digital computer that has a graphical user......
MP3, a data compression format for encoding digital audio, most commonly music. MP3 files offered substantial fidelity......
MS-DOS, the dominant operating system for the personal computer (PC) throughout the 1980s. The acquisition and......
MSNBC, American cable television news and political commentary channel launched in 1996. It is owned by NBCUniversal,......
Henry Muddiman was an English journalist who supported the Royalist cause during the Civil Wars and became a privileged......
mug shot, photographic image taken by law enforcement officials during the booking process to be used to identify......
Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and social critic. A lecturer in Cairo in the late 1920s, he worked......
multiplexing, simultaneous electronic transmission of two or more messages in one or both directions over a single......
multiprocessing, in computing, a mode of operation in which two or more processors in a computer simultaneously......
multitasking, the running of multiple programs (sets of instructions) in one computer at the same time. Multitasking......
Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator. The son of a draper, Munday began his......
Frank Andrew Munsey was a newspaper and magazine publisher, a dominant figure in the trend toward journalistic......
Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who founded (1979) the......
George P. Murdock was an American anthropologist who specialized in comparative ethnology, the ethnography of African......
Edward R. Murrow was a radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American......
museum, institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the primary tangible evidence of humankind and the......
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museum of modern art, an institution devoted to the collection, display, interpretation, and preservation of “avant-garde”......
music recording, physical record of a musical performance that can then be played back, or reproduced. Because......
MYCIN, an early expert system, or artificial intelligence (AI) program, for treating blood infections. In 1972......
Myspace, website and social media platform that was the most popular social network from 2005 to 2008. The site,......
MySQL, open-source relational database management software, owned by the computer software company Oracle, that......
Nakae Chōmin was a noted writer who popularized the equalitarian doctrines of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques......
Napster, music file-sharing computer service created by American college student Shawn Fanning in 1999. Napster......
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), independent federal agency headquartered in Washington, D.C.,......
National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports basic research and......
natural language processing (NLP), in computer science, the use of operations, systems, and technologies that allow......
navigation chart, map designed and used primarily for navigation. A nautical chart presents most of the information......
NCR Voyix Corporation, NCR Voyix is an American e-commerce company known for its digital banking and point-of-service......
NEC Corporation, major Japanese multinational corporation, producer of telecommunications equipment and related......
Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary......
negative, photographic image that reproduces the bright portions of the photographed subject as dark and the dark......
William Rockhill Nelson was an American journalist, editor, and publisher who helped found The Kansas City Star......
net neutrality, principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of content.......
Net neutrality“the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of......
netbook, informal classification used in the early 21st century for a variety of small low-cost mobile personal......
Netflix, Inc. is a media company based in Los Gatos, California, that was founded in 1997 by American entrepreneurs......
netiquette, guidelines for courteous communication in the online environment. It includes proper manners for sending......
Netscape Communications Corp. , American developer of Internet software with headquarters in Mountain View, California.......
neural network, a computer program that operates in a manner inspired by the natural neural network in the brain.......
John Newbery was an English publisher. In 1744, he set up a bookshop and publishing house in London, and it became......
Newhouse family, family that built the second largest publishing empire in the United States in the second half......
news agency, organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers,......
news aggregator, online platform or software device that collects news stories and other information as that information......
News Corporation (“News Corp”) is a multinational media and information services conglomerate that was originally......
newscast, radio or television summary of news events read by a newscaster or produced with a combination of reading......
newsgroup, Internet-based discussion group, similar to a bulletin board system (BBS), where people post messages......
newsletter, informal publication, often simple in format and crisp in style, that provides special information,......
newspaper, a publication and form of mass communication and mass media usually issued daily, weekly, or at other......
newspaper syndicate, agency that sells to newspapers and other media special writing and artwork, often written......
Jordan Kush Ngubane was a Zulu novelist, scholar, and editor for the South African publications Ilanga lase Natal......
John Nichols was a writer, printer, and antiquary who, through numerous volumes of literary anecdotes, made an......
Mary Gove Nichols was an American writer and advocate of women’s rights and health reform. Nichols is best known......
Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson was an American poet and journalist, the first woman publisher of a daily......
Hezekiah Niles was an editor and newspaper publisher who was one of the foremost figures in early American journalism.......
Nintendo console, groundbreaking eight-bit video game console created by Japanese designer Uemura Masayuki. The......
Nintendo Wii, electronic game console, released by the Nintendo Company of Japan in 2006. Instead of directly competing......
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japanese telecommunications company that almost monopolizes Japan’s......
Nishi Amane was a philosopher, writer, and publisher who helped introduce Western philosophy, especially British......
non-fungible token (NFT), a non-interchangeable digital asset such as a photograph, song, or video whose ownership......
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe was one of the most successful newspaper publishers in......
Northrop Grumman Corporation, major American manufacturer specializing in defense and commercial aerospace, electronics,......
Charles Eliot Norton was an American scholar and man of letters, an idealist and reformer by temperament, who exhibited......
Natalie Nougayrède is a French journalist who served as executive editor and managing editor of the flagship French......
nouvelle artificial intelligence, an approach to artificial intelligence (AI) pioneered at the Massachusetts Institute......
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov was a Russian writer, philanthropist, and Freemason whose activities were intended to......
number, any of the positive or negative integers or any of the set of all real or complex numbers, the latter containing......
number sign, versatile symbol (#) most commonly used to preface numbers (e.g., apartment #1) but which encompasses......
Numerals are the symbols used to represent small numbers, and numeral systems are collections of these symbols......
Harry Nyquist was an American physicist and electrical and communications engineer, a prolific inventor who made......
object-oriented programming, use of predefined programming modular units (objects, classes, subclasses, and so......
Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaper publisher under whose ownership (from 1896) The New York Times became......
offset printing, in commercial printing, widely used printing technique in which the inked image on a printing......
John Ogilby was a British printer who was a pioneer in the making of road atlases; as a poet and translator he......
Okumura Masanobu was a painter and publisher of illustrated books who introduced innovations in woodblock printing......
Tillie Olsen was an American writer and social activist known for her powerful fiction about the inner lives of......
open source, social movement, begun by computer programmers, that rejects secrecy and centralized control of creative......
operating system (OS), program that manages a computer’s resources, especially the allocation of those resources......
optical sound recording, use of an optical system for registering sound on photographic film; it is a technique......