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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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CSS, declarative-style computer programming language used to design website content. CSS is one of the three main......
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and shipowner who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship......
Charles Curran was a British broadcasting administrator best known for his leadership at the British Broadcasting......
Sir Donald Currie was a shipowner and politician, founder of the Castle Line of steamers between England and South......
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was a publisher who established a journalistic empire in Philadelphia. As early......
George William Curtis was a U.S. author, editor, and leader in civil service reform. Early in life Curtis spent......
cyberspace, amorphous, supposedly “virtual” world created by links between computers, Internet-enabled devices,......
cylinder recording, earliest form of phonograph record, invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877. The sound to be recorded......
daguerreotype, first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented......
Daigak Guksa was a Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch’ŏnt’ae sect of Buddhism. A son of the Koryŏ king Munjong,......
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie was a British governor-general of India from 1847......
Olof von Dalin was a writer and historian who wrote the first easily readable and popular Swedish works and who......
Damrong Rajanubhab was a Thai prince, son of King Mongkut and brother of King Chulalongkorn. He was the founder......
Charles A. Dana was an American journalist who became a national figure as editor of the New York Sun. In 1839......
Dark Horse Comics, American comic book publisher founded in 1986 by comics retailer Mike Richardson. In an industry......
dark web, websites not indexed by search engines and theoretically possible to visit with complete anonymity. The......
darknet, encrypted network within the Internet that can be accessed only by specialty software or certain software......
data compression, the process of reducing the amount of data needed for the storage or transmission of a given......
data encryption, the process of disguising information as “ciphertext,” or data unintelligible to an unauthorized......
Data Encryption Standard (DES), an early data encryption standard endorsed by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards......
data mining, in computer science, the process of discovering interesting and useful patterns and relationships......
data processing, manipulation of data by a computer. It includes the conversion of raw data to machine-readable......
data protection, species of privacy law that controls access to information relating to the individual. Typically,......
data structure, way in which data are stored for efficient search and retrieval. Different data structures are......
data transmission, sending and receiving data via cables (e.g., telephone lines or fibre optics) or wireless systems.......
database, any collection of data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by......
database management system (DBMS), system for quick search and retrieval of information from a database. The DBMS......
Elmer Davis was a news broadcaster and writer, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War......
Edward Davy was a physician, chemist, and inventor who devised the electromagnetic repeater for relaying telegraphic......
George Geoffrey Dawson was an English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his......
Benjamin Henry Day was an American printer and journalist who founded the New York Sun, the first of the “penny”......
Stephen Day was the founder of the first printing press in England’s North American colonies. Day himself does......
dazibao, in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), prominently displayed handwritten posters containing complaints......
DC Comics, American media and entertainment company whose iconic comic-based properties represented some of the......
deep web, a part of the Internet that extends beyond the reach of search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing......
deepfake, synthetic media, including images, videos, or audio, generated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology......
DEISA, former European consortium (2002–11) of national supercomputer centres—partially funded by the European......
John Thaddeus Delane was the editor of The Times of London for 36 years. Delane, the second son of a distinguished......
Martin Delany was an African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period; his espousal......
Floyd Dell was a novelist and radical journalist whose fiction examined the changing mores in sex and politics......
DENDRAL, an early expert system, developed beginning in 1965 by the artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Edward......
Robert H. Dennard was an American engineer credited with the invention of the one-transistor cell for dynamic random-access......
Joseph Dennie was an essayist and editor who was a major literary figure in the United States in the early 19th......
Émile Deschamps was a poet prominent in the development of Romanticism. Deschamps’s literary debut came in 1818,......
desktop publishing, the use of a personal computer to perform publishing tasks that would otherwise require much......
detection, in electronics, the process of rectifying a radio wave and recovering any information superimposed on......
Diane di Prima was an American poet, one of the few women of the Beat movement to attain prominence. After attending......
Anton Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher and composer best known for his waltz, or Ländler, on which Ludwig......
Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes......
dictating machine, device for recording, storage, and subsequent reproduction (usually by typewriter or word-processing......
dictionary, reference book that lists words in order—usually, for Western languages, alphabetical—and gives their......
Denis Diderot was a French man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the......
Didot Family, family of French printers, publishers, and typefounders who had a profound influence on the history......
diffusion model, computational method used to generate high-quality images by reversing the process of adding noise......
digital camera, device for making digital recordings of images. Texas Instruments Incorporated patented the first......
digital computer, any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form.......
digital sound recording, method of preserving sound in which audio signals are transformed into a series of pulses......
digital twin, virtual representation of a physical object, structure, or system that incorporates real-time data......
digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), Process by which digital signals (which have a binary state) are converted......
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneer radio news reporter and the first of Britain’s great broadcast journalists. He was......
Alioune Diop was a Senegalese politician, publisher, and founder of the newspaper Présence Africaine. French-educated......
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician, famous for his work in algebra. What little is known of Diophantus’s life......
diorama, three-dimensional exhibit, often miniature in scale, frequently housed in a cubicle and viewed through......
DirectX, a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) designed to handle multimedia tasks on Microsoft Corporation’s......
disability survey, collection of information about disability by using survey methods. Although disability statistics......
Discord, privately owned American social media platform that provides spaces for online communities. Originally......
display resolution, number of pixels shown on a screen, expressed in the number of pixels across by the number......
distortion, in acoustics and electronics, any change in a signal that alters the basic waveform or the relationship......
distress signal, a method by which a ship at sea can summon assistance. Distress signals are fixed by custom and......
distributed computing, the coordinated use of many computers disbursed over a wide area to do complex tasks. Distributed......
DLL, file containing code for commonly used program functions on personal computers (PCs) that run the Microsoft......
DNA computing, the performing of computations using biological molecules, rather than traditional silicon chips.......
DNS, network service that converts between World Wide Web “name” addresses and numeric Internet addresses. The......
James Dobson was a child psychologist, a radio host, and the founder of Focus on the Family, a massive Evangelical......
E.L. Doctorow was an American novelist known for his skillful manipulation of traditional genres. Doctorow graduated......
John V. Dodge was an American editor and publishing executive of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A graduate of Northwestern......
Mary Abigail Dodge was an American essayist and editor whose writings included works both of homely wit and in......
Mary Mapes Dodge was an American author of children’s books and the first editor of St. Nicholas magazine. As the......
Robert Dodsley was a British author, London bookseller, publisher, playwright, and editor who was influential in......
dollar sign, $, symbol that represents the dollar, the name of the standard monetary unit used in the United States,......
domain name, address of a computer, organization, or other entity on the Internet. Domain names are typically in......
Jack Dorsey is an American Web developer and entrepreneur who, with Evan Williams and Christopher Stone, cofounded......
The dot-com boom of 1995–2000 (and ultimate bust in 2001–2002) was a period of large, rapid, and ultimately unsustainable......
Frank Nelson Doubleday was an American publisher and founder of the book-publishing firm Doubleday & Company, Inc.......
Frederick Douglass was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous......
Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who cofounded Dow Jones & Company, a financial news service, and The......
driver, computer program that acts as an intermediary between the operating system and a device such as a disk......
Founded in the early days of the Internet, the Drudge Report is a U.S.-based news site whose bare-bones approach......
Matt Drudge is an American journalist who is best known for the Drudge Report, a conservative news and commentary......
dry offset, offset printing process combining the characteristics of letterpress and offset. A special plate prints......
dry plate, in photography, glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be stored until......
DSL, networking technology that provides broadband (high-speed) Internet connections over conventional telephone......
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important......
dubbing, in filmmaking, the process of adding new dialogue or other sounds to the sound track of a motion picture......
Élie Ducommun was a Swiss writer and editor who in 1902, with Charles-Albert Gobat, won the Nobel Prize for Peace.......
Louis Dudek was a Canadian poet noted for his development of the nonnarrative long poem. Educated at McGill University......
duplicating machine, a device for making duplicate copies from a master copy of printed, typed, drawn, or other......
Evert Augustus Duyckinck was an American biographer, editor, and critic who with such works as the two-volume Cyclopaedia......
DVD, type of optical disc used for data storage and as a platform for multimedia. Its most prominent commercial......
dye-transfer process, in photography, technique for preparing coloured photographic prints in which the colours......