Penguin

An Acronym for Internet Service Provider.

An organisation whose main activity is to provide a broad range of InterNet services, usually to the retail market. Common services include DialUp connections, ADSL connections, WebServers hosting their members' WebSites, a WebProxy, and various other services, mainly DNS, Email, NTP, NNTP, FTP mirrors, but sometimes others as well, such as game servers.

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