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interface card Refers to a type of peripheral card that implements an interface to
other devices.
internal disk drive Use either internal disk drive or built-in disk drive.
internet Short for internetwork; refers to any large network made up of a number of
smaller networks. Compare Internet; intranet.
Internet Refers to the worldwide network made up of interconnected networks that
use the TCP/IP networking protocol. When used as a noun, always preceded by the.
Don’t use Internet and World Wide Web or web interchangeably; the web is just one part
of the Internet. Compare internet; intranet.
Internet addresses An Internet address can specify an address on the World Wide Web
(WWW) or on other Internet sites, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet sites.
The part of the address before the colon, called the scheme, indicates the protocol that
is used for transferring data from the server to the user’s computer.
website: http://samples.examples.com
FTP site: ftp://myfiles.hobbies.org
Telnet site: telnet://games.transfer.com
An Internet address includes a suffix that indicates the domain to which the address
belongs. Examples of domain suffixes include:
.edu—educational organizations
.com—commercial organizations
.mil—military organizations
.org—nonprofit organizations
.uk, .fi—networks located in the United Kingdom, Finland
 Font: Use plain text for an Internet address. In print documents, don’t underline the
address or use quotation marks around it.
 Line breaks: Avoid breaking Internet addresses; set them on a separate line if necessary.
 Punctuation: If an Internet address ends a sentence, it’s OK to use a period.
 References: When you refer to a website or page, use a generic name (for example, the
Apple website) rather than the specific title (for example, Welcome to Apple), because
webpage titles change frequently.
If a reader can figure out how to get to the specific information needed from the
homepage of a whole site, refer to that page rather than to a specific page, because
organization of sites frequently changes.
See also email addresses; HTML; HTTP; URL.
Internet Message Access Protocol See IMAP.
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