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by Adobe, lets you view and print PDF files in your
browser window. Adobe Acrobat 3.0 permits anyone to share business
documents across platforms with their original look and feel intact. |
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The area of a hypertext document that is either the
source or destination of a hypertext link. The link might extend from
that area to another document or from another document to that area.
When anchors are the starting points of these links, they are typically
highlighted or otherwise identified in the hypertext browser. |
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Annual Prepayment amount if customer wishes to pay
by check. *(does not include set up fee) |
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Annual Prepayment amount if customer wishes to pay
by credit card. *(does not include set up fee) |
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A system of computers and databases tracking information
of FTP servers throughout the world. |
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Moving a file, or compressing a file for long term
storage or to save space. |
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(Address Resolution Protocol) A means of determining
a host's address from its Internet address. |
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is the precursor of today's Internet and was transferred
by DARPA in July of 1975 as an operational network. Today's Internet
became reality when the ARPANET was divided into Military and Civilian
sections in 1983. TCP and IP protocols were established by 1980, and
adopted throughout ARPANET by 1983. ARPANET was dissolved in 1989
and the National Science Foundation began to manage the network. |
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American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. A 7-bit character code that can represent 128 characters,
some of which are control characters used for communications control
and are not printable. |
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(Active Server Page) |
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(Asynchronous Transfer Mode) A standard for packet
switching which uses packets of a fixed length. |
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Usually referring to a file that is linked or attached
to an e-mail message. |
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A property of an HTML element; specified in the start
tag of the element. |
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The ability to play audio as it is being received
as opposed to downloading an entire audio file and launching an audio
player. |
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Verification of a person's identity or a processes
validity. |
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Used in the context as creating World Wide Web documents. |
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(Infobots) An automatic response to an e-mail inquiry
generated by the mail server that is programmed to acknowledge receipt
of an e-mail request. This can be used to send additional information
about a specific product or service. See also, Infobot.
E.g. For current pricing, send e-mail to prices@your-domain.com |
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A graphic or pictorial representation of a user in
a 3-D chat area. Usually chosen by each user, the avatar can be an
animal or caricature. |
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(Audio Video interleaved) A Microsoft multimedia
file format. |
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A high speed centralized network
connecting smaller independent networks. |
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Frequency that creates a back up file. |
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Refers to the "private entrance" around the security
in a program or network used by programmers or technicians to perform
maintenance or gain entry. |
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The range of frequencies (data) a transmission line
can carry and defined in bit\s (BPS). The larger the bandwidth, the
greater the information capacity of a channel. |
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An online advertising graphic. |
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A unit of transmission/receiving speed, expressed
in terms of the number of different signal events per second. It is
the same as bit/s, when it is used to transmit a single bit of data. |
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Blind Carbon Copy. To send an e-mail where the addressee
does not see that the letter was also sent to a third party. |
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Any file that is not plain, ASCII text. For example:
executable files, graphic files and compressed (ZIP) files. |
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(contraction of binary digit) A single unit of information
that has two values, 0 or 1. |
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"Because It's Time" Network. An academic computer
network that provides interactive electronic mail and file transfer
services, using a store-and-forward protocol. BITNet hosts are not
on the Internet per se, but are reachable by email through BITNet
to Internet gateways. |
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The return of a piece of mail because of an error
in the delivery process. Mail can be bounced for various reasons.
"Bounce" can also refer to the message indicating the error (informal
usage). |
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Marking the location OF an Internet address for quick
reference. |
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Bits per second. Measurement of digital information
transmission rates. |
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Any network (or frequency) that multiplexes different
independent network carriers into a single cable or channel. |
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The simultaneous transmission of like data from one
to many destinations, one to all. |
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A slang term for websites where companies have done
little more than scan their companies brochures and mounted them on
their web pages. This is the first step many businesses take while
learning to market on the Internet. |
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A software program for observing the World Wide Web;
synonym for a Web client. |
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An abbreviation for "By The Way". |
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(BBS) A computer, and associated hardware, which
typically provides electronic messaging services, archives of files
and any other services or activities of interest to the bulletin board
system's operator. Many BBS's are currently operated by government,
educational and research institutions. Although BBS's have traditionally
been the domain of hobbyists, an increasing number of BBS's are connected
to the Internet. The majority, however, are still reachable only via
a direct modem-to-modem connection over a phone line. |
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E-mail sent to multiple addresses in one huge mailing.
Usually referring to a UCE bombing or SPAM. |
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Eight bits forming a unit of data. Typically, each
byte stores one character (letter or number). |
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The name of a programming language
so called because many features derived from an earlier compiler named
`B' in commemoration of its parent, BCPL. Before Bjarne Stroustrup
settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate
over whether C's successor should be named `D' or `P'. C is now the
dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. |
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Shareware for which either the author suggests that
some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to
charity is included on top of the distribution charge. |
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A temporary storage bin in memory and on your hard
drive. Browsers stash the contents from pages that have been downloaded
in the event they are called upon to be displayed again. |
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(Common Client Interface) Allows Web clients to communicate
with external viewers or other applications. |
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Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire. The
European laboratory for particle physics, where the Web originated
in 1989. (See http://www.iso.ch/) |
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(Common Gateway Interface) A standard for programs
to interface with Web servers. |
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(bin - short for binary) The name of a directory
on a web server in which CGI programs are usually stored. |
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The basic unit of discussion on IRC. Once one joins
a channel, others read everything one types on that channel. Channels
can either be named with numbers or with strings that begin with a
`#' sign and can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant
to the actual subject of discussion). |
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Another name for an imagemap. |
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A software program that requests information or services
from another software application, a server, and displays this information
in a form required by its hardware platform. |
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A front-end client and a back end server allows multiple
workstations (client) to access the same server at the same time over
the LAN. The Internet is a global client/server network. The goal
of such a design is to off-load as much processing as possible to
the desktop leaving the shared information at the server. |
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A temporary staging area for copied information stored
in memory. The clipboard stores information until you copy another
or you exit Windows. |
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The factor by which a search engine rates the relevance
or results of a keyword query. |
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The access method through which one is connected
to the Internet. Connectivity choices are increasing rapidly. |
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A handle or transaction identifier, or other token
of agreement between cooperating programs. Cookies were introduced
by Netscape to preserve state information on the browser. This permits
a site to recognize you on subsequent visits. Shopping cart programs
can record each item you have collect as you navigate through a site.
When done shopping, the web page can use all of your accumulated cookies
to calculate the charge. Some people believe that any site you connect
to can read all the cookies on your disk. However, only the site that
issued the cookie can read it. |
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A very popular suite of graphics programs. |
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Advertising term meaning cost per one thousand sightings
or impressions. |
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A cracker is an individual who attempts to access
computer systems without authorization. These people are often malicious,
as opposed to hackers, and have many means at their disposal for breaking
into a system. |
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(Cascading Style Sheets) a World Wide Web Consortium
specification for designing layout and style elements of a web page.
It permits you to control the appearance of fonts, colors, sizes,
etc. throughout the entire site by referencing one master page. FrontPage
98 does this by assisting you with the "Themes" option. |
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(Click Through Rate) Advertising term indicating
the percentage of viewers who click on a banner advertisement and
follow the link. |
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The keyboard command to copy text or graphics selected
(highlighted) by the cursor to the computers temporary RAM memory. |
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The keyboard command to paste an object stored in
RAM memory into an open application such as a paint program or word
processor. |
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Citizens of the Internet, Net heads, Netizens. |
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An online shopping mall such as IBM's World Avenue. |
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A term coined by William Gibson in his SF novel Neuromancer
(1984) to describe the interconnected "world" of computers and the
society that gathers around them. Today, cyberspace is the Internet
and the tens of thousands of computers and networks that make up the
Net. - D - |
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[from the mythological meaning, later
rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program
that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some
condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition
need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program
will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly
invoke a daemon). |
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Cumulative total of data that is transferred over
the web site each month. |
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Account with an Internet Service Provider that utilizes
a telephone call to a modem (rather than a dedicated data line). |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (now
the Defense Information Systems Agency) initiated the DARPA Internet
program in 1969. This network which was called an "CATENET" was the
precursor to the modern Internet. |
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A program that establishes and maintains your connection
to the Internet, as well as provides Winsock support. Other popular
dialers include Trumpet Winsock and the Windows '95 Dial up Networking. |
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A temporary connection between machines established
with modems over a standard phone line. |
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Electronic cash or bank account. Automatic payroll
deposits in your bank are examples of digital cash. |
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Amount of disk space available for programming. |
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(Domain Name Service) The Internet's distributed
database system used to map names with the appropriate IP address.
The DNS is a general-purpose distributed, replicated, data query service.
The principal use is the lookup of host IP addresses based on host
names. The style of host names now used in the Internet is called
"domain name", because they are the style of names used to look up
anything in the DNS. Some important domains are .COM (commercial),
.NET (network), .EDU (educational), .GOV (government) and .MIL (military).
Most countries also have a domain. For example, .US (United States),
.UK (United Kingdom) and .AU (Australia). |
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The alphabetic name for a computer host; this name
is mapped to the computer's numeric Internet Protocol (lP) address. |
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Copying files from another computer to your own computer
over a communications link. |
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(Dots Per Inch) The spatial resolution of a graphics
image, how many dots per inch in a graphic image determine the quality
of output. A high-end printer can produce 600 - 1200+ DPI while a
computer monitor is only 72 DPI. |
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(Document Type Definition) A specification for a
mark-up language. |
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(Electronic Data Interchange) The
exchange of information through the use of an electronic (and usually
secure) messaging system. |
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(Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org)
is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public
interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public
resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility
in new media. Founded in July of 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) is dedicated to finding ways to resolve these and other conflicts
while ensuring that essential civil liberties are protected. |
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A unit of structure in an HTML document; many elements
have start and stop tags; some have just a single tag; some elements
can contain other elements. |
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Electronic Mail. The exchange of messages via networked
computers to an e-mail address. E-mail allows attaching and sending
of other files. |
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The domain-based address that is used to send electronic
mail to a specified destination. For example, "support@ix.netcom.com"
is the email address for the user support on the machine ix that is
part of the netcom.com domain. |
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Automated forwarding of E-mail messages delivered
to an established e-mail address. |
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Automated e-mail response to messages received at
a specified e-mail address |
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An electronic shopping mall.
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E-mail emotions, or faces that you insert to express
moods. Examples: Smiley face :-) or unhappy face :-( |
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The most common LAN transmission network. |
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(Internet Explorer) Microsoft's web browser |
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The number of times a viewer sees an advertising
banner. |
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A close relative of an Intranet with the difference
being that remote company offices not confined to the corporate location
can utilize the Intranet via the Internet. |
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An acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. |
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(Fiber Distributed Data Interface) A fiber-based
token-passing LAN technology standardized by ANSI, with dual counter-rotating
rings. Each ring carries information at the rate of 100 Mbits. |
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An automatic method of screening e-mail messages
as they are downloaded from the Internet. An e-mail client can be
instructed to deposit (file or trash) qualifying e-mail messages in
various folders as they are received. A filter can look at keywords,
addresses, domains, subject matter, size, etc. |
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An Internet tool used to locate people on other Internet
sites. |
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A gateway between two networks that screens and buffers
information passing between the networks. |
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To post an email message intended to insult and provoke. |
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A posting intended to trigger a flame war, or one
that invites flames in reply. |
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HTML element that allows users to fill in information
and submit it for processing. |
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An HTML programming option that permits a web page
to be subdivided into smaller sections of varying size. The "windows"
can have no relevance to each other or, they can be hyper-linked to
each other. |
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A communications interface that provides high-speed
packet transmission with minimum delay and efficient use of bandwidth.
It assumes that all connections are reliable and does not have error
detection or control which helps to speed up the protocol. |
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Software that is free but still copyright protected. |
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FrontPage®
98 Server Extensions |
FrontPage extensions are server side programs which
are required for using FrontPage software. FrontPage software communicates
with the extensions to direct requests to the appropriate program,
such as authoring (uploading/downloading documents, ToDo Lists), administration
(setting end-user, author, and administrator privileges), and dynamic
content (browse-time WebBot components). |
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(File Transfer Protocol) A means to exchange files
across a network. |
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(Graphics Interchange Format) A storage
format for images; can be used as an inline image in an HTML document. |
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A protocol for disseminating information on the Internet
using a system of menus; items in the menus can be links to other
documents, searches, or links to other information services. |
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A Web client that displays inline images and fonts
and that usually offers mouse-based point-and-click operation. |
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(Graphical User Interface) Pronounced "gooey", a
navigational command or menu interface designed to be self-explanatory
and easy to use by pointing and clicking on text selections and icons.
The Windows GUI interface, although originally pioneered in the 1970s
by Xerox, is now the de-facto standard for American business. |
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A person who delights in having an
intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers
and computer networks in particular. |
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Type of server acting as a host server. |
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(Handheld Device Markup Language) A developing programming
language for a new class of cellular (wireless) communications. |
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Information that appears across the top of e-mail
messages, and newsgroup articles. The header usually contains data
about the sender, date message was created, the computer path the
message traveled through and other information used for managing the
message. |
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The binary code name for the color used in html. |
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A request from a browser for a single item from a
web server. An overused term when discussing traffic on a website,
e.g. "We get 500,000 hits per month." Calling one page from a server
could result in dozens of "hits" because each graphic is interpreted
as a hit. In reality, counting only the "index.htm" page or "default.htm"
page would be a more accurate gauge of traffic. |
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A place on the web for any person or organization
on the Internet to display information to anyone else who wants to
see it. A company, for example, could put the entire contents of their
brochure, or annual statement, or technical support manual on the
Web as a home page. |
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Any computer on the Internet is referred to as a
host. |
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A Web browser capable of executing applets written
in the Java programming language. |
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The region of displayed hypertext that, when selected,
links the user to another point in the hypertext or another resource. |
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(HyperText Mark-up Language) The mechanism used to
create Web pages; Web browsers display these pages according to a
browser-defined rendering scheme. |
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Indicates document structure, elements, formatting
and links to other documents. HTML Tags also allow use of other media
within a document Example - <TagNamer> area affected </TagName> |
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(HyperText Transfer Protocol) The native protocol
of the Web, used to transfer hypertext documents. |
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Hypertext that may include multimedia: text, graphics,
images, sound, and video. |
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A means of "jumping" from one information site to
another on the same or a different network server. |
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Text that is not constrained to a single sequence
for observation; Web-based hypertext is not constrained to a single
server for creating meaning. |
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(Internet Engineering Task Force
- http://www.ietf.org/overview.html)
A large open international community of network designers, operators,
vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet
architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open
to any interested individual. To learn more about this group, what
they do and how you may want to become involved, read "A Guide for
New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force" at: http://www.ietf.org/tao.html |
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A graphic inline image on an HTML page that potentially
connects each pixel or region of an image to a Web resource; users
click on the image to retrieve the resources. |
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(See autoresponder and mailbot) an automatic response
to an e-mail or web inquiry used to provide additional information
about a product or service. |
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GIF files that are interlaced permit the graphic
to load gradually in the browser window, progressively increasing
the clarity. |
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The cooperatively run, globally distributed collection
of computer networks that exchange information via the TCP/IP protocol
suite. |
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An IP address that uniquely identifies a node on
the Internet. Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP
Protocol Suite. It is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching
protocol. |
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Is a non-governmental International organization
for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking
technologies and applications. The Society's individual and organizational
members are bound by a common stake in maintaining the viability and
global scaling of the Internet. They comprise the companies, government
agencies, and foundations that have created the Internet and its technologies
as well as innovative new entrepreneurial organizations contributing
to maintain that dynamic. Visit their home pages at: http://info.isoc.org/ to see how Internet innovators are creatively using the network. |
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is a cooperative activity between the National Science
Foundation, Network Solutions, Inc. and AT&T. Network Solutions
sponsors Registration Services, Support Services, and Net Scout Services.
Click here to visit the InterNIC on the Web. |
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b-onweb or ISP will pay the initial InterNIC fee
for a 2 year registration of the domain name. ($70.00 value)
(Business & Commerce Sites only) |
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A new breed of entrepreneur who develops Internet/Intranet
businesses or applications. |
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is a private, internal network that operates within
the walls of a company (similar to a LAN) and is
usually insulated from the outside world via an electronic or hardware
impedance called a firewall. |
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This is a four-part number, which everyone
else on the Internet uses to uniquely identify your network. |
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Internet Protocol Next Generation is a working group
of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is responsible
for solving the IP address shortage due to occur after the millenium. |
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(Internet Relay Chat) A worldwide "party line" network
that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured
as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections
from client programs, one per user. |
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(Integrated Services Digital Network) Switched digital
networking that handles a range of digital voice and digital image
transmission. It provides end-to-end, simultaneous handling of voice
and data on the same digital links via integrated switches. For more
information about Netcom ISDN services, go to our ISDN Information
page (http://www.netcom.com/isdn). |
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(International Standards Organization) An international
organization that sets standards for many things, including, for example,
the ISO Latin-1 character set. (See
http://www.iso.ch/) |
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ISP (Internet Service
Provider) |
A Company or Entity that provides Internet access
to the public. |
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An object-oriented programming language
for creating distributed, executable applications. |
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A non-compiled command language used in HTML applications
where the instructions are managed by the browser. |
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(Java Development Kit) The development kit from Sun
Microsystems that provides the basic tools needed to write, test and
debug Java. |
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(Joint Electronic Payment Initiative) developed by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help facilitate electronic
commerce. |
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Electronic junk mail. |
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(Joint Photographic Expert Group) A graphic compression
and decompression standard. |
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Kilobits per second. A measure of
digital information transmission rates. (1 kilobit = 1,000 bits) |
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A popular file transfer protocol developed by Columbia
University. Because Kermit runs in most operating environments, it
provides an easy method of file transfer. Kermit is not the same as
FTP. Issuing the command kermit by itself starts Kermit in interactive
mode. |
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The descriptive text included in HTML programming
which is indexed by search engines. E.g. keywords such as motor, engine,
tires, etc. would be included in a site geared to automobiles. |
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http://www.lexis-nexis.com/ Although fee-based, this database consisting of extensive news and
general interest subjects is one of the most powerful research sites
in the world. |
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A connection between one hypertext document and another. |
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(Listserv) A software program used to manage e-mail
discussion groups. |
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Files that record and store raw data of web site
traffic. |
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To hang around a Newsgroup without participating.
A person who is lurking is just listening to the discussion. Lurking
is encouraged for beginning users who wish to become acquainted with
a particular discussion before joining in. |
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A nongraphical Web browser, developed by the University
of Kansas. |
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions,
a specification for multimedia document formats. |
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(see Infobot or Autoresponder) A program that automatically
responds to incoming e-mail requests. |
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A software program that distributes files or information
in response to requests sent via e-mail. Internet examples include
Almanac and netlib. Mail servers have also been used in BITNet to
provide FTP-like services.
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An e-mail address which expands to multiple e-mail
addresses. Usually they are confined to specific topics of information.
Majordomo - A mailing list processor which runs under Unix. |
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(Messaging Application Programming Interface) Is
Microsoft's standard for the interface to e-mail. |
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The set of all networks that can exchange electronic
mail either directly or through gateways. This includes the Internet,
BITNET, FidoNet, UUCP, and commercial services such as America Online,
CompuServe, Delphi, Prodigy, as well as other networks. This term
was coined by John S. Quarterman in his book, The Matrix (Digital
Press, 1990). |
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Megabits per second. A measure of digital information
transmission rates. (1 megabit = 1,000 kilobits) |
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Approximately one million bits of data. |
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Approximately one million bytes of data. |
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A banking company that handles corporate transactions.
A merchant bank enables a business to receive and clear credit card
transactions on line. A merchant bank is the one who actually transfers
money from a buyer's account to a seller's account as a result of
goods or services being sold. |
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Commands in HTML that instruct the browser or search
engines to perform specific tasks, identify keywords, site definitions,
page authors, plug-in requirements, etc. that are invisible to the
user. |
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(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) a protocol
that permits sounds from musical instruments to be converted to a
program and read by a computer. |
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a specification
in multimedia documents. |
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A hardware device that connects to the phone lines
that permits computers to exchange information. Modems convert binary
data into analog for the purpose of passing that data over copper
phone lines. |
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A person, or small group of people, who manage moderated
mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups. Moderators are responsible for
determining which e-mail submissions are passed onto a list. |
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A newsgroup whose articles are sent via e-mail to
the group's moderator, who checks material before they are posted. |
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Monthly hosting fee associated with each level of
web hosting service. |
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A graphical Web browser originally developed by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); now includes
a number of commercially licensed products. |
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Supports the installation and operation of a MS SQL
database on the web site. |
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(Multi-User Dungeon) Adventures, role-playing games
or simulations played on the Internet. Devotees call them "text-based
virtual reality adventures". Players interact in real time and can
modify the "world" in which the game is played. Most MUDs are based
on the Telnet protocol. |
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The simultaneous execution of two or more assignments
by one program or the coordinated use of one program that performs
many functions at the same time. |
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A term that describes the distribution
of information (or TV programs) designed for minority interests rather
than the mass appeal targeted by broadcasting. |
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The act of observing the content of the Web for some
purpose. |
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(National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; developers and
distributors of NCSA Mosaic. |
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An informal term for the Internet or a subset (or
a superset) of the Matrix in context. For example, a computerized
conference via e-mail may take place on a BITNET host that has an
Internet gateway, thus making the conference available to anyone on
either of these networks. |
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Net abuse can be either abuse of ISP'S network services,
or violations of netiquette. Types of net abuse that violate Terms
and Conditions include:
- Using too many of the system resources.
- Attempting to "hack", or break into accounts.
- Using an account for any illegal activity.
- Evading the 10-minute idle timeout.
- Running background processes or "bots".
- Sending unsolicited email.
- Sending chain letters via email.
- Advertising in inappropriate newsgroups.
- Off-topic posts to newsgroups.
- "SPAMming" or inappropriate postings to many
newsgroups.
- Disruption of newsgroups or IRC channels.
- "Flooding" someone with talk requests.
- Direct threats in newsgroup posts or email.
- Sharing an account (in certain circumstances).
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Pointer service allows hosting customers to have
more than one domain name point to their website. For example, you
would use the Pointer Service if your company is known as www.microsoft.com,
but you wanted to have www.frontpage.com also link to the same website. |
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Allows for encryption of information collected over
the web page. |
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A special dial-up account that allows access to UNIX
Shell machines. |
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A web browser (Navigator) and by default, the name
of the authoring company. The Netscape( browser was based on the Mosaic
program developed at NCSA. |
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("network etiquette") The conventions of politeness
(Miss Manners etiquette of the Internet) recognized on USENET, such
as avoidance of cross-posting to inappropriate groups and refraining
from "commercial pluggery" outside the biz (business) newsgroups. |
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A new Internet user. |
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Speed of connection attached to the host server. |
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A collection of articles (postings) sent to a specific
place on the Internet regarding a specific theme. |
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(Network Information Center) A NIC provides information,
assistance and services to network users. The Internet Network Information
Center (InterNIC) is a project administered by AT&T and Network
Solutions, Inc. (NSI). AT&T provides directory and database services
for registered Internet hosts, while NSI administers the registration
process. |
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A name that you select when you connect to an IRC
server. Many users choose descriptive nicknames that have no relevance
to their real identity. |
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Network Operations Center |
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Network Operating System |
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A device on a network that requests or provides services.
A node is also used to describe a network workstation. |
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(Network News Transfer Protocol) A protocol for the
distribution, retrieval and posting of Usenet articles through high-speed
links available on the Internet. |
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The National Science Foundation started the Supercomputer
Centers program in 1986. NSF's idea was to construct five supercomputer
centers around the country and build a network that would link them
with users. This would be the core of the U.S. Internet, until its
privatization and retirement in 1995. |
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Network Solutions Inc. was awarded the InterNIC contract
worth $5.9 million a year by NSF. NSI began registering domains at
the rate of approximately 400 per month. |
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(New Technology) Windows NT is Microsoft's 32-bit
version of Windows. It is a standalone operating system (OS) that
is also a "network ready" system. |
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(Optical Character Recognition) Software that converts
scanned images of text documents into files, which can then be imported
into a word processor. |
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(Open Financial Exchange) Messaging specifications
created by Microsoft, Intuit and Checkfree. |
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Ability to make orders over the internet. |
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Operating system installed on host server. |
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(Operating System) DOS, Windows 3.1,
Win95, UNIX, OS2, etc. are basic operating systems for computers. |
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A set of data handled as a unit in
data transmission. |
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A method of transferring data in a network where
individual packets are accepted by the network and delivered to the
prescribed destination. Packets can be distributed in any order because
the control data sent at the beginning of the transmission ensures
they are interpreted in the correct sequence once received. Because
each packet carries its own instructions, it can use any route to
reach its destination. |
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A single file of hypertext mark-up language. |
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The list of directories you pass through to get to
embedded directories. Pathnames begin with a slash (/) and directory
names are separated by a slash. |
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(Personal Digital Assistant) Handheld computing and
communication devices. |
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A file format exclusive to the Adobe Acrobat Reader
that can be downloaded and viewed off-line. |
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(Protocol Extension Protocol) is an extension to
HTTP. |
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(Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) A scripting
language written by Larry Wall used for text manipulation and popular
for writing gateway applications. |
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(Pretty Good Privacy) encrypts and decrypts files
and messages using some of the strongest encryption technology available
to U. S. civilians. |
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The TCP/IP service that lets you check to verify
that you can reach another network node from your local host. Ping
is usually a quick test to ensure that your connection is valid. The
command will return the time in milliseconds that a packet takes to
make the round trip from your local host to the remote host. |
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An application that allows you to view different
information formats in your browser window. |
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Point-of-Presence. A linked group of modems, routers
and other equipment, located in a particular city or metropolitan
area, allowing local subscribers to access the Internet through a
local telephone call. |
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(Post Office Protocol) A protocol designed to allow
single user hosts to read e-mail from a server. There are three versions:
POP, POP2 and POP3. Later versions are not compatible with earlier
versions. |
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Post Office Protocol Electronic mail address at your
domain name. Example: name@domainname.com POP E-mail is the standard
for the exchange of messages via networked computers to an e-mail
address. |
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The method of sending e-mail message to a Newsgroup
or electronic bulletin board. |
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The email contact and maintenance person at a site
connected to the Internet. Often, but not always, the same as the
admin. 
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(Plain Old Telephone Service) Copper phone wires
or twisted pair, the same wiring that connects to your home or office. |
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Point to Point Protocol. A communications protocol
that allows dial-up access to Internet over telephone lines. |
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The primary mailbox is set up automatically when
you get your Netcom Account. |
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The primary mailbox uses the account holder's services
password to log in to the primary mailbox. |
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The primary mailbox uses the account holder's username. |
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message formats (rules) that two or more machines
must observe to exchange information. To print a document on a network
printer, strict protocols must be adhered to or the operation can
not proceed. |
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(Public Switched Telephone Network) The old-fashioned
telephone system with which we all grew up. See POTS. |
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(As opposed to "PULL" technology) Information is
delivered to a desktop or other receiving device in real time as new
information becomes available. This is as a result of a user defining
areas of interest, industries, and keywords via a personal profile
with the PUSH service provider. |
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(QT) A format developed by Apple
Computer for working with data files, such as sounds and video. A
QuickTime file is indicated by a ".mov" (movie) filename. |
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A round selection (check box) field
in software programs and web forms that when checked, looks like a
knob from an old radio. |
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Random Access Memory is temporary memory that your
computer uses to store information. Text copied to the "clipboard"
is stored in RAM until it is replaced by new information or the computer
is turned off. |
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A browser plug-in used to listen to live or on-demand
music in real-time across the Internet at 14.4K baud or higher. |
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Operating on a remote computer, using a protocol
over a computer network, as though locally attached. Commonly used
protocols include telnet and rlogin. Telnet is a TC--More--P/IP protocol.
The rlogin protocol is specific to Unix environments. UNIX shell customers
can use both telnet and rlogin. |
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(Request for Comments) A series of documents that
describes standards or proposes new standards for Internet protocols
and technologies. |
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Ring No Answer. This is the symptom used to describe
a modem at a local POP that rings, but does not pick up the incoming
call. |
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A term for software programs that automatically explore
the Web for a variety of purposes; robots that collect resources for
later database queries by users are sometimes called spiders. |
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the process used on the Internet to deliver data
packets to their intended destination. A router processes the data
packet and reads the destination address included in the IP header
then determines the next (router) stop that will take the packet closer
to its destination. The process is repeated until the packet arrives
at its final target. |
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An acronym for "Read The Freaking Manual". Advice
given to Newbies who ask questions before looking for the answers
in the appropriate places. |
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A method of "capturing" a snapshot
of your computer screen. Pressing the "Print Scrn" key on your keyboard
will place an image of your computer screen in memory. Pasting (Ctrl
V) that image into any graphics program will permit you to crop and
edit that scene. |
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Resources that are used to locate information on
the Internet. |
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A software application that provides information
or services based on requests from client programs. |
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(Secure Electronic Transactions) a new Internet standard
from MasterCard and VISA. |
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One time set up fee associated with each level of
web hosting service. |
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Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language; a standard
for defining mark-up languages; HTML is an instance of SGML. (See
http://www.sgmlopen.org/) |
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Software that you try out for a certain period of
time and then pay for it if you wish to keep using it. |
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Software purchased on a whim (by an individual user)
or in accordance with policy (by a corporation or government agency),
but not actually required for any particular use. Therefore, it often
ends up on some shelf. |
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The user interface to an operating environment. Unix
has several, including the Bourne shell (sh), the C shell (csh), and
the Korn shell (ksh). |
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A browser plug-in from Macromedia that permits you
to view animated multimedia presentations on the web. |
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Text that can be automatically added to the bottom
of e-mail messages or newsgroups articles. |
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A file section of a computer on which Web documents
(or other documents served in another protocol) reside; for example,
a Web site, a Gopher site, an FTP site. |
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Serial Line Interface Protocol. A communications
protocol that allows direct, dial-up access to the Internet over phone
lines. |
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Set of rules that
the Internet uses for moving e-mail messages. |
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Causing a newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant
or inappropriate messages. SPAMing is considered one of the worst
examples of bad Netiquette. |
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The traditional mail service offered by the U.S.
Postal Service. |
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A software program that traverses the Web to collect
information about resources for later queries by users seeking to
find resources; major species of active spiders include Lycos and
WebCrawler. |
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(Structured Query Language) A standardized query
language used for querying databases in client/server applications. |
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The line in e-mail messages where you insert the
subject being discussed. This is an important place to add "spin"
to a marketing message. |
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The act of navigating the Web, typically
using techniques for rapidly processing information in order to find
subjectively valuable resources. |
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The person responsible for maintenance of a given
computer system. Short for "System Operator". |
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Data communications line capable
of transmitting at speeds of 1.54 Mbps. |
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Data communications line capable of transmitting
at speeds of 45 Mbps. |
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The format code used to make up part of an HTML element;
for example, the TITLE element has a start tag, and an end tag. |
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The protocol used to connect two computers, and it
is the foundation of the Internet. The Internet is TCP/IP, and usually
it is implemented on top of UNIX, except at the final desktop destination,
where it might be on a Windows PC, a DOS PC, or a Mac. |
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A protocol for sharing information across networks
using a technique for terminal emulation; appears as if user is "logged
in" to remote computer. |
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1000 gigabytes. |
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In Microsoft FrontPage 98, Themes provide a consistent
look throughout a website. More than 50 professionally designed thematic
templates include backgrounds, fonts, page headers, and navigation
buttons. |
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In a discussion group or mailing list, a message
thread is a series of e-mail responses to a particular subject strung
together as in "following the thread". |
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(The Internet Adapter) A product that emulates a
SLIP or PPP connection over a serial line, allowing shell users to
run a SLIP/PPP session through a Unix dialup account. "TIA" is also
used informally as an abbreviation for "Thanks in advance". |
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Taking orders (usually via a secure procedure) and
processing credit card transactions. |
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A computer program which carries within itself a
means to allow the program's creator access to the system using it. |
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A term used to define a public message (either on
a USENET newsgroup or other public message board on an online service)
that is posted for the sole purpose of offending people and/or generating
an enormous flood of non-topic replies. TTFN - Ta-Ta For Now |
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Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, or
another term for SPAM |
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Copying files from your own computer onto another
computer over a communications link. |
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(Universal Payment Preamble) Internet payment negotiation
protocol that is an extension to HTTP. |
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A story, which may have started with a grain of truth,
that has been embroidered and retold until it has passed into the
realm of myth. Is an interesting phenomenon that these stories become
spread so far, so fast and so often. Examples of Urban Legends relating
to the Internet include "The Infamous Modem Tax", "Craig Shergold/Brain
Tumor Get Well Cards", and "The Good Times Virus". |
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(Uniform Resource Locator) The scheme for addressing
on the Web; a URL identifies a resource on the Web. |
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A system for disseminating asynchronous text discussion
among cooperating computer hosts; the Usenet discussion space is divided
into newsgroups, each on a particular topic or subtopic. |
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A compression of "user identification"; the userID
always proceeds the @ sign in an email address. |
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A username consists of 1 to 8 characters, and only
uses numbers 0 through 9 and the 26 alphabet letters. Usernames do
not have spaces. usernames are the first part of an e-mail address:
username@b-onweb.com. You must have a username and a services password
to log in to a mailbox. |
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(UNIX-to-UNIX Command Protocol) This was initially
a program run under the Unix operating system that allowed one Unix
system to send files to another Unix system via dialup phone lines.
Today, the term is more commonly used to describe the large international
network, which uses the UUCP protocol to pass news and electronic
mail. |
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The restoration of uuencoded data to its original
form. |
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(Unix to Unix Encoding) A process used to convert
binary files (graphics) to ASCII (text) so that they can be transmitted
across the Internet via an e-mail attachment. |
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A service that maintains an index
of titles of items on gopher servers, and provides keyword searches
of those titles. |
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A Site on the Internet that exists virtually with
other domains on the same Network Server. |
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A logical vs. a physical (wired) LAN made up of workgroups
and individuals brought together for a particular project with most
member's location being apart from the others. |
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A program that when loaded infects, alters or destroys
other programs. Some virus programs cause major trouble and some are
nothing more than annoying pranks. |
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(Virtual Reality) A place or event that exists only
in cyberspace but is programmed to have the appearance of a real experience. |
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(Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A specification
for three-dimensional rendering used in conjunction with Web browsers. |
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(World Wide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/)
An international industry consortium committed to developing public
protocols for the World Wide Web. Currently, the W3C is contemplating
HTML 4.0 specs including XML, digital signatures and they are the
developers of the Joint Electronic Payment Initiative (JEPI) |
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(Wide Area Information Servers) A distributed information
service which offers simple natural language input, indexed searching
for fast retrieval and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows
the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public
domain implementations are available. See also: Archie, Gopher, Veronica. |
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Wide Area Network. A communications network which
connects geographically dispersed users. |
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The act of creating and linking Web pages. |
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Pronounced "wave", an audio file used extensively
on the Internet and in computer software programs. (i.e.: filename.wav)
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A set of hypertext pages that is considered a single
work; typically, a single web is created by cooperating authors or
an author and deployed on a single server with links to other servers;
a subset of the Web. |
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(World Wide Web) A hypertext information and communication
system popularly used on the Internet computer network with data communications
operating according to a client/server model. Web clients (browsers)
can access multi-protocol and hypermedia information (where appropriate
multimedia helper applications are available for the browser) using
an addressing scheme. |
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Software that provides the services to web clients. |
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See robots. |
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A collection of web pages or a domain on the World
Wide Web |
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A new slang term, putting a business on the Web. |
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An Internet program which allows users to query a
database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks
and hosts. |
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A computer operating system developed by Microsoft
providing graphical user interface and multitasking capabilities. |
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A new operating system for PDAs and handheld devices
which is basically a scaled down version of Win95. |
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Industry standard specifying how TCP/IP-based network
applications should communicate with TCP/IP protocol software. |
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Software "question and answer applications" that
perform a function after presenting the user with selectable options.
A set-up wizard may ask, "Do you want white or black text" or "Do
you want fries with your order". |
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A computer program, which replicates itself and is
self-propagating. Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn
in network environments. Network worms were first defined by Shoch
and Hupp of Xerox in ACM Communications (March 1982). The Internet
worm of November 1988 is perhaps the most famous; it successfully
propagated itself on over 6,000 systems across the Internet. See also:
Trojan Horse, Virus. |
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A file transfer program that is used to upload/download
files and text to your Web Site. Designed for non-programmers but
sophisticated enough for power users, WS_FTP Pro is widely recognized
as the fastest, most powerful Windows file transfer client application
available. |
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The World Wide Web. The WWW is a global network of
HTML based documents that allow visual and interactive communication
to take place. A Home Page or a Web Page is part of this World Wide
Web. |
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An acronym for What You See is What You Get. Pronounced
"whizzy-wig". |
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under development since the1960s,
Xanadu is the original hypertext and interactive multimedia program. |
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(eXtensible Markup Language) like HTML, is an outgrowth
of SGML that permits developers to control and display data in the
same way they control text and graphics today. XML is not a replacement
for HTML. |
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A windowing system supporting graphical
user interfaces to applications. |
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An acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical
Officious Oracle, and Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ was one of the first and remains as one of the best Internet search
engines. |
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(Yellow Pages) A service used by Unix administrators
to manage databases distributed across a network. Now known as NIS
(Network Information Services). |
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As in magazine, a (usually) free
Internet publication. |
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A type of file compression used most often on the
Internet. The file extension for a zipped file is .ZIP. |
