Industry Solution   Individual business process software applications--including many designed to meet unique industry needs--integrated into a single global enterprise solution. internet   (Lowercase i) Any time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state. Internet   (Uppercase I) Originally called ARPANET after the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. This electronic network connects the hosts together so that you may go from one web page to another efficiently. The electronic connection began as a government experiment in 1969 with four computers connected together over telephone lines. By 1972, universities also had access to what was by then called the Internet. Internet-Enabled   Solution components, such as 4 Guys Interactive's enterprise applications, designed to operate through Internet technology. InterNIC   InterNIC is a group of people who control domain name registration. They also provide various services to all users of the Internet. Intranet   A private networks inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. As the Internet has become more popular, many of the tools used on the Internet are being used in private networks; for example, many companies have web servers that are available only to employees. Note that an Intranet may not actually be an Internet -- it may simply be a network. IP Number   Internet Protocol Number. Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dot (e.g. 165.113.245.2) every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number - if a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet. Most machines also have one or more Domain Names that are easier for people to remember. IRC   Internet Relay Chat. Huge multi-users live chat facility. There are a number of major IRC servers around the world, which are linked to each other. Anyone can create a channel and all others in the channel see anything that anyone types in a given channel. Private channels can (and are) created for multi-person conference calls. ISDN   Integrated Services Digital Network. A way to move more data over existing regular telephone lines. ISDN is rapidly becoming available too much of the USA and in most markets it is priced very comparably to standard analog telephone circuits. It can provide speeds of roughly 128,000 bits-per-second over regular telephone lines. In practice, most people will be limited to 56,000 or 64,000 bits-per-second. ISP   Internet Service Provider. An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually for money. Issuing Bank   issues the credit to a credit card holder. When sale authorization is requested, the merchant's bank, requests the funds to be transferred from the credit card company, which in turn receives the funds from the issuing bank.