Internet Access (ISP)

An organization which offers access to the Internet to individuals who do not belong to an organization which is connected directly. A home PC can be linked to the ISP via a modem and the public telephone network; the ISP then provides the additional connection to the Internet. Most ISPs also offer many value-added services, such as mailboxes and Web pages.An association of computer networks with common standards which enable messages to be sent from any host on one network to any host on any other. It developed in the 1970s in the USA as an experimental network designed to support military research, and steadily grew to include federal, regional, campus, and other users. Growth has been particularly rapid since 1990. It is now the world's largest computer network, with around 400 million hosts connected in 2006, providing an increasing range of services and enabling unprecedented numbers of people to be in touch with each other through electronic mail, discussion groups, and the provision of digital ‘pages’ on every conceivable topic. The World Wide Web is an Internet facility designed for multimedia use, in which individuals or organizations make available ‘pages’ of information to other users anywhere in the world, generally at no cost, but in the case of certain commercial operations through subscription. Functional information, such as electronic shopping, business data, advertisements, and bulletins, can be found alongside creative works, such as novels, poems, and scripts, with the availability of movies, TV programmes, and other kinds of entertainment being actively progressed. 

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