Intranet
An inhouse website that serves the employees of the enterprise. Although intranet pages
may link to the Internet, an intranet is not a site accessed by the general public.
Using programming languages such as Java, client/server applications can be built on intranets.
Since Web browsers that support Java run under Windows, Mac and UNIX, such programs
also provide cross-platform capability.
Intranets use the same communications protocols and hypertext links as the Web and thus
provide a standard way of disseminating information internally and extending the application
worldwide at the same time.
The term as originally coined in the definition above has become so popular that it is often
used to refer to any inhouse LAN and client/server system.
