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| A widely used information system on the Internet that provides facilities for documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another |
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| A focus for an extensive community that now includes about 60 countries and 8000 scientists. |
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| 3. Internet Service providers |
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| An Internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. |
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| 4. World Wide Web Consortium |
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| main international standards organization for the World Wide Web |
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| a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a dialed connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) via telephone lines. |
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| form of broadband Internet access that uses the cable television infrastructure |
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| 7. Application service providers |
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| a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network |
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| a family of technologies that provide internet access by transmitting digital data over the wires of a local telephone network |
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| a widely used standard in telecommunications in North America and Japan to transmit voice and data between devices |
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| 10. Satellite Internet Access |
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| Internet access provided through satellites |
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