intranet

2 definitions found

intranet - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  intranet
      n 1: a restricted computer network; a private network created
           using World Wide Web software

intranet - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  intranet
  
     <networking> Any network which provides similar services
     within an organisation to those provided by the Internet
     outside it but which is not necessarily connected to the
     Internet.  The commonest example is the use by a company of
     one or more World-Wide Web servers on an internal TCP/IP
     network for distribution of information within the company.
  
     Since about 1995, intranets have become a major growth area in
     corporate computing due to the availability of cheap or free
     commercial browser and web server software which allows
     them to provide a simple, uniform hypertext interface to
     many kinds of information and application programs.
  
     Some companies give limited access to their intranets to other
     companies or the general public.  This is known as an
     "extranet".
  
     (1997-07-14)