portal

A site on the World Wide Web (WWW) that serves as a gateway or port of entry to the Internet.

A portal typically includes hyperlinks to news, weather reports, stock market quotes, entertainment, chat rooms, and so on. See also chat room, gateway, hyperlink, and WWW.

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• V.34
• V.34+
• V.34bis
• V.35
• V.42
• V.42bis
• V.90
• V.90
• V.92
• vacuum
• Vail, Alfred (1807–1859)
• value-added network (VAN)
• value-added reseller (VAR)
• value-added service
• V & H (Vertical and Horizontal)
• variable bit rate (VBR)
• variable quantizing level (VQL)
• VAR (Value-Added Reseller)
• V band
• vBNS (very-high-speed Backbone Network Service)
• VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
• VC
• VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier)
• VCO (Voice Carry Over)
• VCO (Voice Carry Over)