{
  "id": "internet.digital",
  "term": "internet",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "internet",
  "domain": "digital",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a system of linked connections through which users send and receive information using devices",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "system.organized",
      "links.connection",
      "data.information",
      "device.tool",
      "send.communication",
      "receive.communication",
      "user.role",
      "connection.social",
      "information.knowledge",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the organized system uses connected links and devices to enable users to send and receive information",
    "novel_properties": [
      "global information exchange",
      "decentralized connectivity",
      "user-mediated data flow"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1983 launch of NSFNET connected academic institutions across the United States, expanding access beyond military use.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Iran's National Information Network routed domestic traffic through local servers during the 2019 internet shutdown.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Undersea fiber-optic cables like MAREA, completed in 2018, carry data between Virginia and Spain at 160 terabits per second.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "medium-for"
    },
    {
      "id": "data.information",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "website.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "internet",
    "internets"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts that the definition implicitly relies on: connection.social for networked participation, information.knowledge for semantic content, and use.application for functio"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-internet.digital"
}