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What is the Internet? How the Internet works Acessing the Internet Internet services Operating the net: overview Who owns the Internet and who is in charge? Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and Virtual Private Networks In Search of Reliable Internet Measurement Data Global Data Flows  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  Alexander Graham Bell b., March 3, 1847, Edinburgh d. Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada American audiologist and inventor wrongly remembered for having invented the telephone in 1876. Although Bell introduced the first commercial application of the telephone, in fact a German teacher called Reiss invented it. For more detailed information see the Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,15411+1+15220,00.html