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| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. New technology to carry high speed data over ordinary phone lines. It is up o 70 times as fast as a 28.8 modem, and can be used concurrently with voice over the same line. It is gradually being offered to homes commercially now. It is called "asymmetric" because download speeds to the subscriber are faster than upload speeds from the subscriber. |
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| Animated GIF |
A GIF graphic file, which consists of two or more images shown in a timed sequence to give the effect of motion. |
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| Applet |
An application that is downloaded from a web page and executed by browser software. Also, an HTML tag that defines an applet program. |
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| Archie |
A system that helps you find files located anywhere on the Internet. After Archie locates the file, you can use FTP to get it. Archie is both a program and a system of server computers that contain indexes of files. |
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| ASP |
Active Server Pages or Application Service Provider |
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| Authentication |
Verifying the identity of a person or computer process. |
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| Backbone |
A high-speed line or series of connections that form a major pathway within a network. The term is relative, since a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network. |
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| Bandwidth |
Literally, the frequency width of a transmission channel in Hertz, kiloHertz, megaHertz, etc. Often used as an expression of the amount of data that can be sent through a circuit. The greater the bandwidth, the greater the amount of data that can travel in a given time period. |
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| Banner ad |
Also referred to as a banner ad, a banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a Web site either above, below or on the sides of the Web site's main content and is linked to the advertiser's own Web site. In the early days of the Internet, banners were ads with text and graphic images. Today, with technologies such as Flash, banners have gotten much more complex and can be ads with text, animated graphics and sound. Most commerce-related Web sites use banner ads. |
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| Bookmark |
Just as a paper bookmark is used as a reminder of the page you are on in a book, electronic bookmarks are used to bring you back to a website or other site you may want to return to. The Netscape browser lets you bookmark any site and save the bookmarks in a file you can recall at any time. Microsoft Internet Explorer uses the term "favorite" instead of bookmark for the same concept. |
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| Browser |
A software application used to display Web pages. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla are examples |
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| Bulletin board System (BBS) |
A computer system that provides its users files for downloading and areas for electronic discussions. |
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| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) |
Cascading Style Sheets is a technique built into version 4.0 and later browsers that support styles for pages. For example, you can set up styles for fonts and page layouts that will apply automatically to pages developed under a particular style you develop. This technique is useful, but the present version browsers from Netscape and Microsoft are quite different in their implementation, and what works with one is not likely to work for the other. For compatibility, care has to be taken to use common elements. |
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| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface. A method used by WWW pages to communicate with programs run on the web server. |
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| Chat |
A form of real-time electronic communications where participants type what they want to say, and it is repeated on the screens of all other participants in the same chat. Internet Relay Chat or IRC is an Internet protocol for chat, and there are many other chat systems. |
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| Client |
A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each client program is designed to work with one or more types of server programs. |
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| Cold Fusion |
Software to build easily build Rich Internet Applications that integrate with databases, XML, web services, Macromedia Flash, and more. ColdFusion empowers developers with a productive scripting environment and integrated search and charting capabilities. |
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| Content |
Generally, the information provided on a web page, as opposed to its design and layout. Content can take the form of text, graphics, audio, video, or a searchable database. |
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| Cookies |
A mechanism for server-side connections to store and retrieve information on the client side. |
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| Cross platform |
Different computing systems being able to share data. |
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| Cyberspace |
A virtual universe of computers, programs, and data. |
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| Database |
A collection of information organized electronically for easy access by your computer system. Think of a database as an electronic filing system. |
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| Directory |
A term describing the hierarchical structure used to organize files or folders. The first directory in any file is labeled root directory. You may be familiar with the Windows back slash (/) which is the symbol for root directory. |
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| DNS |
The Domain Name System. A system for translating computer names into numeric Internet addresses. |
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| Domain Name |
Domain names identify Web pages. In this example of a web address, ideo-studio.com is the domain name: http://www.ideo-studio.com/index.html
Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which top level domain (TLD) it belongs within, such as:
* .gov - Government agencies
* .mil - Military
* .edu - Educational Institutions
* .com - Commercial Business
A web address, also called a URL, is actually a sequence of numbers called IP Addresses. Your web server translates these numbers into your domain using a Domain Name System (DNS) server. |
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| Dot-com |
Nickname for the many commercial businesses that have registered names in the .com domain. |
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| Dpi |
Dpi stands for dots per square inch. This refers to the amount of pixels in one square inch of a graphical image. The higher the dpi of an image the better the quality the image will be. |
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| E-mail |
Electronic mail. One of the earliest standard Internet protocols which enables people with different computers and operating systems to communicate with each other. E-mail allows one-to-one or one-to-many mailings. Mail is received and held by a mail server within an organization or by an Internet service provider until the addressee logs on to collect the mail. The Internet e-mail standards include no provision for authenticating the sender, which makes it possible for spammers to use false From addresses and routing. |
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| Extranet |
A network that supplements a closed intranet by providing access to customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and others outside the organization who have a need for selective information from the organization. It is not accessible to the Internet at large. |
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| FAQ |
Acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. FAQ files are collections of common questions and answers for a particular subject area. For example, see the Navigating the Net FAQ for general Internet and World Wide Web questions and answers and the Publishing on the Web FAQ for questions and answers on creating web pages. |
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| Finger |
A program that displays information about someone on the net. On most UNIX systems, this command tells you who is logged on right now. On most Internet hosts, it tells you the name, possibly some other information based on the person's Internet address, and the last time they logged on. |
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| Firewall |
A filter for messages. A system that has a firewall lets only certain kinds of messages in and out from the rest of the Internet. If an organization wants to exchange mail with the Internet, but does not want other Internet members "Telnetting in" and reading those files, its connection to the Internet can be protected by using a firewall. |
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| Flash |
A bandwidth friendly and browser independent vector-graphic animation technology. As long as different browsers are equipped with the necessary plug-ins, Flash animations will look the same. With Flash, users can draw their own animations or import other vector-based images. |
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| Forms |
Forms add extra interactivity to web sites. Questionaires can be created, that include text areas, check boxes and radio buttons which are then sent by the viewer to a specified mail box, usually the manager of the web site. |
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| FTP File Transfer Protocol |
The Internet protocol that permits you to transfer files between your system and another system. You can use its command language from a shell account or various programs with SLIP or PPP accounts that simplify the process. |
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| Gateway |
A computer that connects one network with another when the two networks use different protocols. The UUNET computer connects the UUCP network with the Internet, providing a way for mail messages to move between the two networks. |
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| GIF |
Graphical Interchange Format. A bitmap graphical format originally developed for CompuServe that is widely used in WWW pages. It is particularly good for text art, cartoon art, poster art, and line drawings - all types with solid colors and distinct lines or borders between different colors. GIF files use a .gif extension. |
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| Gopher |
A system that lets you find information by using menus. To use Gopher, you usually Telnet to a Gopher server and begin browsing the menus. |
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| GUI |
Graphical User Interface. Pronounced "gooey". An operating system interface between the user and the computer based on graphics. GUIs typically use a mouse or other tracking device and icons. First developed by XEROX as an easier to learn interface than text-based ones, it was adopted by Apple for the Macintosh, Microsoft for Windows, and even for UNIXsystems as XWindows. |
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| Helper application |
This is an application that adds extra functionality to web documents. e.g. If you download a movie clip the web browser is unable to play the file but it can boot up a helper application, in this case it may be 'Fast Player' (A movie player application). |
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| Hits |
This refers to the number of people who have visited a given Web Site or page.( e.g.10300 hits) |
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| Home page |
A home page is a web page. In most familiar terms, it is a personal page for an individual. It can also be the basic main page for a more complex web site for individuals, organizations, or web communities. On complex web sites, it is the page which a server will show when no HTML filename is listed, usually with the name index.html, home.html, or default.html or the same names with the shorter extension .htm. |
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| Host |
A computer on the Internet you may be able to log on to. You can use FTP to get files from a host computer, and use other programs (such as Telnet) to make use of the host computer. |
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| Host Server or Web Site Hosting |
A computer that stores the files that make up your web site. |
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| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language. The coding system used to create WWW pages. A page written in HTML is a text file that includes tags in angle brackets that control the fonts and type sizes, insertion of graphics, layout of tables and frames, paragraphing, calls to short runnable programs, and hypertext links to other pages. Files written in HTML generally use an .html or .htm extension. |
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| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol. It is the main protocol used on the World Wide Web that enables linking to other web sites. Addressing to other web pages begins with "http://" and is followed by the domain name or IP address. |
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| Hyperlink |
A link in a web page that brings you to another location or resource when activated. Hyperlinks usually appear as underlined text and printed in a contrasting color, but they may also appear as graphics, such as buttons to click. Hyperlinks may link to another place in the same page, to a different page, to play an audio or video file, to download a file, to set up a message to an e-mail address, to search a database, to read Usenet newsgroups, and to link to other Internet resources. |
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| Hypermedia |
Computer applications that have the ability to link information to information created by another application, characteristic of Internet Applications. |
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| Hypertext |
A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways, available at several levels of detail. Hypertext documents can also contain links to related documents, such as those referred to in footnotes. Hypermedia can also contain pictures, sounds, and /or video. |
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| Illustrator |
A vector graphics program by Adobe. |
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| Image map |
An image map is another way of creating links between web pages. In image maps, different parts of the image activate different links. (an example: this is an external web link) |
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| Infobahn |
A collective term given to all Digital Media. |
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| Internet access |
Internet access is usually made through a University Network or a commercial service provider. |
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| Intranet |
A network of networks that interconnects within a single widespread organization and uses the Internet Protocol (IP). The sites within an Intranet are generally closed to the Internet and are accessible to organization members only. |
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| IP |
Internet Protocol. The transport layer protocol used as a basis of the Internet. IP enables information to be routed from one network to another in packets and then reassembled when they reach their destination. |
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| IP address |
IP addresses, together with domain addresses are the two forms of Internet addresses in common use. IP addresses consist of four numbers between 0 and 255, separated by dots. |
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| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network. A technology that carries data over phone lines at up to 128Kbps for dial-up users, but extends to fast broadband communications, too. It applies to the first three layers of the OSI and TCP/IP models. |
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| ISP |
Internet Service Provider. |
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| Java |
A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems based on C++. It is used with web pages to create applets that will run on different platforms. |
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| JavaScript |
A script language (with little in common with Java) developed by Netscape for writing short programs embedded in a web page. It is supported by Netscape from version 2.0 on and Microsoft and AOL browsers from version 4.0 on. MSIE 3.0 partially supports some features of JavaScript. |
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| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group, a graphical format that is widely used in WWW pages. It is particularly well suited to photographs and 3D or VRML images where there is a continuous range of colors or shades. It is a lossy format that can be reduced in file size by reducing the detail in the image. JPEG files use a .jpg or less commonly, .jpeg or .jpe extension. |
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| LAN |
Local Area Network. A group of connected computers, usually located in close proximity (such as the same building or floor of the building) so data can be passed among them. |
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| Land lines |
Communication technologies that are physical cable laid under the ground (e.g. copper cables, fibre Optic) unlike radio communications. |
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| Leased line |
Refers to a phone line that is rented for exclusive 24-hour, 7-days-a-week access between your location and another location. The highest speed data connections require a leased line. |
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| Link |
An active connection to another web page, location in a web page, file, or other Internet resource. Selecting the link takes you to the new location or resource. |
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| Listserv |
A family of programs that manages mailing lists by distributing messages posted to the list, adding and deleting members automatically. |
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| Local storage |
Electronic data that is stored on the computer you are working on. |
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| Locally |
This term refers to information stored and viewed on your machine(local). As opposed to the information stored and viewed on other machines on the internet. |
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| Login |
A noun or a verb. Noun: The account name used to gain access to a computer system. Unlike a password, the login name is not a secret. Verb: The act of entering into a computer system; for example, "Login to the WELL and then go to the GBN conference." |
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| Mail to |
This enables email contact to be written into a web document. (e.g. select this email address info@ideo-studio.com) |
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| Message |
A piece of e-mail or a posting to a newsgroup. |
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| Meta |
A prefix meaning "information about". |
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| Meta tag |
In HTML or XML, a tag used in the header of a page to provide information about the page. There may be multiple meta tags in a header, each with different information. In current usage, each tag includes the name of the information and the content that supports that name. Commonly used meta tag names are author,description, keywords, date, and copyright. |
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| Mirror |
An FTP server that provides copies of the same files as another server. Some FTP servers are so popular that other servers have been set up to mirror them and spread the FTP load to more than one site. |
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| Modem |
Short for modulator/demodulator. A modem is used between a computer and a phone or cable line to convert the computer's digital signal to an analog signal for the line and vice versa. |
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| Mosaic |
A Windows-based, WinSock-compliant program that lets you access information on the World Wide Web. Microsoft's version of Mosaic is called The Internet. |
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| Multimedia |
The ability of a computer to display text, graphics, video, animation and sound in an integrated manner. |
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| Net |
Net is an abbreviation for the term Internet with stands for Interconnected networks. |
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| Netscape |
Netscape is a WWW browser. An application that allows you to search for information on the World Wide Web and now other services such as Newsgroups and e-mail. It is made by Netscape Communications Corp., formerly Mosaic Communications Corp., a company founded by many members of the original NCSA Mosaic programming team. Netscape is free for Educational and Personal use. |
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| Network |
Any time you connect two or more computers together so they can share resources, you have a computer network. Connect two or more networks together and you have an internet (small "i"). |
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| Newsgroup |
A distributed bulletin board system about a particular topic. Usenet News (also know as Netnews) is a system that distributes thousands of newsgroups to all parts of the Internet. |
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| NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol. A protocol defined for distribution, inquiry, retrieval, and posting of news articles. |
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| Node |
A computer on the Internet, also called a host. Computers that provide a service, such as FTP sites or places that run Gopher, are also called servers. |
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| Offline |
This is working on a computer that is currently not connected to the Internet. |
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| On-line |
This is working on a computer that is currently connected to the Internet. |
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| Packet |
A chunk of information sent over a network. Each packet contains the destination address, the sender's address, error-control information, and data. |
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| Page |
A document displayed on the web. A page may consist of a single screen or multiple screens reached by scrolling down or to the right. |
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| Palette |
The set of colors used in a picture or on a computer screen. Older computers typically used only 16 colors. Modern ones use at least 256 colors, which can be coded by 8 bits of information. With advanced color cards and monitors 65.5 thousand colors (16-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit) are used. Different web browsers and computer platforms do not necessarily use identical palettes. There is a set of 216 colors that are considered browser and platform safe, which web page designers should use, if they want screens to look essentially the same on each computer that views them. |
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| PDF |
Adobe's Page Description Format. It is often used as a format which allows much more complete, controlled layout of a page and its graphics and text than conventional HTML does. It requires a browser plug-in to see a web page in PDF format. Files will usually have a .pdf extension. To create a page in PDF format, you need Adobe Acrobat (not the free Acrobat Reader) or other premium Adobe software. |
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| Photoshop |
A leading paint program from Adobe Systems, Inc. For many years, Photoshop (which includes Image Ready) has been the model against which other paint programs are compared. Fireworks is a similar program to Photoshop. |
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| Ping |
A network management tool that checks to see whether you can communicate with another computer on the Internet. It sends a short message to which the other computer automatically responds. If the other computer does not respond to the ping, you usually cannot establish communications. |
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| Pixel |
One dot on a computer screen. Todays least expensive monitors typically are 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high. Larger and more expensive monitors range up to 1600 x 1200 pixels and special purpose monitors may go much higher than that. |
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| Plug-in |
A piece of software that plugs into a main program to give it added capability, for example, you can add a Quick Time plug-in to your browser to play Quick Time movies on the web. |
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| POP |
Post Office Protocol. A system by which a mail server on the Internet lets you grab your mail and download it to your PC or Macintosh. Most people refer to this protocol with its version number (POP2, POP3, and so on) to avoid confusing it with Point of Presence. |
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| Port |
1. A connection to a computer to enable other devices, such as printers, modems, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc. to interface with the computer.
2. A logical connection to a network. Different port numbers are used for different purposes, for example, HTTP usually uses port 80. |
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| Portal |
A gateway or entrance to the web. In common usage it has come to describe a starting point page with a hierarchical, topical directory, a search window, and added features like news headlines and stock quotes. |
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| Posting up |
To send a message to a discussion group or mailing list. |
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| PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol. A scheme for connecting two computers over a phone line (or a network link that acts like a phone line). Similar to SLIP. |
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| Protocol |
A language Computers use when talking to each other. |
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| Quick Time |
Multimedia software from Apple Computer that integrates full-motion video and sound into application programs. |
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| Remote access |
When you access a computer that you are unable to see. This is done via a modem or computer network. |
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| Screen resolution |
The number of dots per square inch (dpi) displayed on a screen. The higher the number of dots, the better the resolution. |
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| Search engine |
A utility that will search the Internet, an Intranet, a site, or a database for terms that you select. Search engines on the web consist of four elements:
1. A program that roams the area to be searched, collecting data records (typically, web pages) and links to more data. These are variously known as spiders, worms, crawlers, or other colorful names. Commercial databases, on the other hand, may collect data records in other ways, such as systematically entering the full text of newspapers or journals.
2. A database or collection of records recovered by the spiders or other type of collector
3. An index of the database collected to enable fast access to terms that you search for and their supporting records. Indexes may be enhanced by controlled vocabularies.
4. A search interface--the form in which you enter your search terms and the software behind it that queries the index, retrieves matches, and ranks for relevance and organizes the data for follow-on searches.
Each of the major search engines differs in its approach to these four elements. |
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| Server |
A computer in a network that provides access to other computers in the network to programs, web pages, data, or other files and services, such as printer access or communications access. A server may also authenticate requests for files and services before providing them. |
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| Service provider |
A service provider is a company who supplies Internet services to personal users or business. Among other things they provide access to the Internet or somewhere to place Web Pages making them available to the WWW. You pay the service provider a set fee. |
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| SGML |
Acronym for Standard Graphics Markup Language. It was adopted in 1986 as an international standard (ISO 8879) for the creation, management, storage, and delivery of information products. HTML and its possible successor, XML, are both subsets of SGML. |
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| ShockWave |
Similar to Java, bringing enhanced multimedia to the internet. ShockWave is a development tool created by the company Macromedia. |
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| Site |
A host on the Internet which allows remote access by such protocols as http, ftp, telnet, or gopher. A site may consist of a single page or many pages under a common site name. Whether two addresses with a common site name are one site or more than one may vary depending on your point of view. |
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| SLIP |
Serial Line Interface Protocol. A software scheme for connecting a computer to the Internet. |
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| SMIL |
Short for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a new markup language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that would enable Web developers to divide multimedia content into separate files and streams (audio, video, text, and images), send them to a user's computer individually, and then have them displayed together as if they were a single multimedia stream. The ability to separate out the static text and images should make the multimedia content much smaller so that it doesn't take as long to travel over the Internet. |
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| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to send mail between servers and to send mail from your client to a mail server. Your address to send mail using software like Eudora, Pegasus, or the mail clients in Netscape and MSIE will often begin with smtp. |
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| Socket |
When your computer is on the Internet via a SLIP connection, a socket is a conversation your computer is having with a computer elsewhere on the net. You may have one socket for an FTP session, another socket for a Telnet session, and another socket taking care of getting your mail. |
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| Sound Forge |
A digital audio editor that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. |
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| Spider |
A software robot that serves a search engine by exploring the net, collecting web page addresses and page contents, and following links from them to other addresses to collect still more web information. Also known as a worm or crawler. |
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| Splash page (or splash screen) |
An initial Web site page used to capture the user's attention for a short time as a promotion or lead-in to the site home page or to tell the user what kind of browser and other software they need to view the site. |
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| Streaming audio, streaming video |
Technologies which permit listening and watching continuously as the signal is transferred to your system from a remote web site. It requires a high degree of compression to transfer audio or video (or both) at 28.8 Kbps or 14.4 Kbps speeds and still retain quality music and non-jerky video. If stereo sound is desired, there is a trade-off in the sound quality. These technologies are continually improving and the sound and video sampling and compression techniques are getting better. Faster connection speeds are needed to improve quality substantially, and the speed must be maintained over the entire path between the transmitting and receiving systems. The systems generally use a few seconds buffering, but signal slowdowns or interruptions longer than that break the flow. |
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| Synchronous Communication |
Communication that occurs at the same time, between two or more individuals, for e.g. telephone conversations, Internet Relay Chat, face-to-face communication |
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| Tag |
In reference to web pages, a tag is an HTML command used in laying out a web page and providing links to resources. |
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| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The protocols that are the basis for transmitting and routing data packets on the Internet. The Internet Protocol is the one thing that all current Internet sites have in common. |
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| Telnet |
The command and program used to login from one Internet site to another. The Telnet command/program gets you to the "login" prompt of another host. |
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| Terminal |
A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At a minimum, this usually means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry. Usually you will use terminal software in a personal computer--the software pretends to be ("emulates") a physical terminal and allows you to type commands to a computer somewhere else. |
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A computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things such as word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is "multiuser") and has TCP/IP built in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. |
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| Upload |
To transfer a file from your computer system to another system via a modem over telephone or cable lines or a telnet connection. Less precisely, it may also refer to a direct transfer from your local terminal to a server over a local area network or an FTP transfer from your system to a remote system. |
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| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. URLs specify the location of a resource in the Internet. You can type or paste a URL into the Location window in your browser and then connect to it. The URL shows the type of item and its basic address and path. The major types are http, gopher, ftp, telnet, newsgroups, news articles, and files, which may be programs, text, graphics, audio, video, etc. |
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| USENET |
An informal group of systems that exchange "news." USENET predates the Internet, but today, the Internet is used to transfer much of USENET's traffic. |
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| Vector graphics |
In mathematics and physics, a vector is a line which has a defined starting point, a designated direction and a specified distance. Vector graphics are line-based graphics. In vector graphics, vectors determine how straight and curved lines (Beziers or splines) are shaped between specific points. The lines and the colors of areas enclosed by the lines make up the picture. Microsoft SYLK is an example of a pure vector format. More commonly used are bitmap files and hybrids of vector and bitmap known as metafiles. |
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| Veronica |
Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. A program that uses word searches to locate articles in Gopherspace. Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. (See also: Gopher). |
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| Viewer |
A program used by Gopher, WAIS, or WWW client programs to show files with contents other than text. You would use a viewer to display graphics or video files, or to play sound files. |
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| Virtual Assistant |
A temporary worker hired as needed who performs tasks remotely. |
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| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
A private network within a public network, usually on the Internet. Privacy for the virtual network is achieved through encryption and provides a less expensive option than using dedicated lines. |
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| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modelling Language. A graphical system that creates views of 3-dimensional images that change as the viewer's angle and position changes and light sources change. It can be used to create an environment or world that appears realistic as you "move" through it. It is widely used for games and for educational applications. The technology is very young and growing fast. It requires a fast computer and fast video support with lots of memory to be effective. |
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| WAN |
Wide Area Network. |
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| Web Hosting |
The World Wide Web (WWW), a web of worldwide servers connected to the Internet, provides an easily used and understood method of accessing electronic content. Accessing information requires data communication between a Web-browser client and a Web-server application. Web hosting, then, is a means of hosting the Web-server application on a computer system through which electronic content on the Internet is readily available to any Web-browser client. |
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| Web ring |
A Web ring (or Webring) is a way of interlinking related Web sites so that you can visit each site one after the other, eventually (if you keep going) returning to the first Web site. Typically, users can also elect to go backwards through the ring of sites, skip a certain number at a time, visit sites randomly, or see a list of all the sites on the ring. A ring is managed from one site which includes a common gateway interface (CGI) application that can select random sites and bypass sites that have dropped out or aren't reachable. |
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| Windows Socket |
(WinSock). Windows Sockets is a standard way for Windows-based programs to work with TCP/IP. You can use WinSock if you use SLIP to connect to the Internet. |
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| World Wide Web (WWW) |
The World Wide Web is an Internet protocol that makes use of the HTML, hypertext, and hypermedia to create pages with links to other pages. WWW pages can include graphics, audio, and video as well as text. |
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| WYSIWYG |
Acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". The term applies to word processors and web page development software where you manipulate text and images directly without writing codes (such as HTML or dot codes) for each attribute. An example of this type of software is Dreamweaver by Macromedia. |
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| XHTML |
Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language. |
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Acronym for eXtensible Markup Language. A richer subset of SGML than HTML. It is a next step in the evolution of web data formats beyond HTML. |
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A method of file compression originally used with MSDOS and a file extension for files which are zip compressed. |
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