Also known as the Net. Internet Service Provider A company or organization that provides access to computers that are directly connected to the Internet for a fee. You call in to the provider s computer using your modem and then, through the company s computers, you have access to the Internet. A self-contained network that uses the same communications protocols and file formats as the Internet. An intranet can, but doesn t have to, be connected to the Internet.
Many businesses use intranets for their internal communications.
See also Internet . A graphics file format commonly used on the Internet and supported by many Web browsers. JPEG was developed for compressing and storing photographic images and is best used for graphics containing many colors, such as scanned photographs. JPEG files, which usually have the extension JPG, are compressed bitmaps. See also GIF .