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| Very high-speed Internet connections that carry signals around the world and meet at network access points |
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| TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) |
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| Suite of communications protocols built into network operating systems to connect computers to the Internet. |
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| First conceived the idea of hyperlinking - creator of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and browser software that allowed users to read HTML from any kind of computer. Result was the world wide web |
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| Uniform Resource Locator (URL) |
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| Unique address for every page on the world wide web |
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| consists of the linked intranets of two or more organizations, for example, of a supplier and its customers. Typically uses public Internet as transmission medium but requires password |
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| Centralized network in which large mainframe computers dominated the electronic data processing field and dumb terminals were used to transmit information. |
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