ISP
Short for Internet Service Provider, an ISP is a company that provides Internet access to users or subscribers of its service. The first ISP is widely believe to be Telenet, which was the first commercial version of ARPANET introduced in 1974. Generally, an ISP will give you an Internet account (access to the Internet), e-mail address, web space for your own web page for around $20.00 U.S. dollars a month. Prices may vary in other countries.Other services such as commercial online services like AOL allow access to proprietary features such as chat rooms, stocks, software, more support, and accessibility globally. However, may cost additional money. AOL, Earthlink, and MSN are just a few of the largest and well known Internet service providers in the United States.
- Click here to see who your ISP is and other system settings are.
- Additional information about connecting to the Internet can be found on document CH000720.
- All questions and answers relating to the Internet can be found here.
Also see: External IP address, Hosting, Internet, Network definitions, NSP
