!!!Internet

Internet, global computer network, the most import service of which is 
the World Wide Web. In 1998 there were 1.1 billion Internet users 
in Austria (1996 2000) and about 164,800 web servers (1996 50,000) 
which were open to the public. The most important Austrian media as 
well as numerous companies are represented in the Internet, as are the 
universities and many schools and museums. All in all 28,000 Austrian 
domain names were registered in the Internet in 1998. The interests of 
Austrian internet providers are represented by Internet Service 
Provider Austria (ISPA), more than 80% of the approx. 100 Austrian 
internet providers are members. Further services offered by the 
internet as a medium of communications are the electronic exchange of 
messages (e-mail) and so-called newsgroups (electronic discussion 
forums), among others. An Austrian development is the HyperWave 
system, which was developed under H.  Maurer at the Graz University of 
Technology. One of its uses is the electronic presentation of Austria 
in the Internet under the name AEIOU. Commissioned by the Ministry of 
Science, this web site was developed in 1996 to mark the millennium of 
Austria; its key element is the Encyclopedia of Austria.

!Literature
A. Zechner, G. Feichtinger, E. Holzinger, 
Handbuch Internet, 1996.


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