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It is possible to use Netscape as the basis for an intranet network that has no connection whatever to the Internet. You can program (with HTML, see the section on HTML) pages with customer facts, internal phone numbers, pictures of new employees, etc..
There are many different kinds of Intranet solutions, but they all have in common that they make use of hypertext links, i.e. you click on a word or picture in order for you to move on to another document or another picture. (see the section on the World Wide Web for more on Hypertext links)
If your firm has an Internet connection you can click on a word inside your Intranet and that word will link you up to a place on the Internet. When you are finished there you leave the Internet and return to your Intranet.
An example: You are looking at a report from a co-worker, and mention is made of a recent report in the Times concerning the matter at hand. The word report is blue and underlined, which means that you can click on it. You click on it and find yourself connected to the Times page on the World Wide Web where you can see/read the recent report for yourself. When you are finished you just leave the Times and return to your Intranet.
That kind of internal network is increasingly popular at most large corporations.