Ethernet is a means of allowing computers to communicate with each other.
Most offices and labs at MIT have ethernet drops, as well as the dorms. This is just a newer convention used to give more meaning to address names. The World Wide Web is the most recent revolution in network communication. HTML does not abound in features, but it provides a simple means for novice programmers to write web pages combining text, graphics, and links to other pages. JAVA , a more advanced web programming language, just recently has been implemented into web browsers such as Netscape and HotJava.