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"The Internet affords anonymity to its users, but it is also behind the explosion of cybercrime that has swept across the Web."

SCORM is a collection of specifications and standards used as a "reference model" of interrelated technical specifications for Web-based learning content and systems.

"ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. "

Good discussion of different types of card used throughout the world."Cards containing chips, called smart cards, simply cannot match something that's supposedly dumb and has been around since the 1970s: ordinary credit cards with magnetic stripes running across their backs. The dumb cards don't need a brain of their own: the network supplies the necessary smarts."

A visual overview of a few of the most common connectors and the devices that can connect to them. Relatively up to date, it doesn't cover near-obsolete connections such as parallel or serial ports, PS2, etc.

Will historical records be lost due to lack of standards in hardware/software leading to issues with access to past data?

"The IEEE has published two important new standards for WiFi mesh networking and peer-to-peer communication between WiFi devices. It says the latter could produce a 10 fold increase in the data rate between connected devices."