Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) A set of rules outlining what users can do..
Account A users Internet connection.
Anchor. Term(s) located in the text of a hyperlink. anchor:"search engine showdown."
Applet A Java applet with the term in the name. applet:morph.
ASCII American Standard Code For Information Interchange.
Attachment One or more binaries which are attached to an Email or a newsgroup item.
Backbone An extremely fast Internet connection as a trunk route between two major computer centers.
Bookmark Mark a webpage to allow direct access to it in the future.
Bot An intelligent computer such as a browser.
Browse Searching .through pages on the web.
Browser The software required.
Browser wars Competition mainly between Netscape Navigator and its eventual defeat to Microsoft Internet Explorer during the late 1990s. However after 2003, the competition was between dominating Internet Explorer and several new, including Mozilla Firefox which is related to Netscape.
Cache A place on your hard drive or ISP servers where browsers store copies of webpages..
Crawl frontier The crawler visits URLs and lists all hyperlinks in each page.
Crawler A web crawler also known as a web spider, web robot, or web scutter is a browser. program or automated script which browses internet. Other names for it are ants, automatic indexers, bots and worms. This process is also called web crawling or spidering.
Domain Name: part of an Internet address that identifies one particular computer or Internet service. Use only at top level, e. g., domain:edu.
Dynamic HTML Latest update.
Email (Electronic Mail) A fundamental social change.
FAQ Frequently Asked Question List.
Finger Used to get information about a remote computer system or distant Email.
Firewall An Internet security system.
Flame A nasty message sent to someone.
FOAF Friend of a friend. File on people and what they do or make.
FTP File Transfer Protocol used to copy information.
Gateway A computer on the Internet that links one part of the network to another.
Host. For a particular site.
HTML Hyper text mark-up language.
Internet Explorer Widely used MS Windows web browser.1
Intranet An internal computer network used within an organisation.
IRC Internet Relay Chat connects people around the world. IRC is realtime.
ISI Information Science Institute.
IT Information Technology. Is IT the same as computer science ?
Java Programing language for enhancing web pages.
Leased Line A permanent Internet connection that does not require a telephone link.
Like Find similar pages to the submitted URL. The http:// can be omitted. Related pages link is similar. in the display.
Link Hypertext link to a favorite site. Underlined address or a different color, linking to a page, site or Email address.
Login Connect to a computer or service.
Microsoft The largest software company in the world. Creators of Internet Explorer and Word.
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An almost standard system used to send binaries within Emails.
Modem A computer accessory that connects a computer to the Internet via a phone line.
Name Server A computer that converts an Internet address into its native IP address (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn)
Netscape The company responsible for Navigator and Communicator. Two popular web browsers.
News Server A special computer that keeps up to date copies of the daily postings made to Usenet.
Newsgroup International discussion areas on multitudinous topics (subjects).
NLM US National Library of Medicine.
Offline Not connected to the Internet.
Online Connected to Internet.
Packet Basic unit of information on Internet.
PDF Portable Document Format is a file format developed by Adobe that has all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print or forward.
POP3 Post Office Protocol is the latest system used to copy Email between a computer and the Internet.
Portal A search engine offering additional content and services.
PPP Point to Point Protocol is the system used to connect modems to the Internet.
Proxy A proxy is a server that sits between a client application, such as a Web browser, and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the real server.
Search Engine Used for tracking down the information, a browser.
Seeds Starting list of URLs..
Server An Internet computer providing a service.
SHOUTING Writing something in Email in capitals yjat is rude.
Site Place on the Internet offering information.
Skin An element of a graphical user interface that can be changed to alter the look of the interface without affecting its functionality. Free; could be contaminated.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol used to copy waiting Email between computers. See also POP3.
Snail Mail Mail sent the old fashioned way.
Spam Flooding news groups and Email addresses with advertising or soliciting something)
Spider A web crawler.
Surfing Browsing.
T1, T3 Leased line of 1.5 Mb/s permanent connection to the Internet, and about 45 times faster than a typical modem..
TCP/IP, The system used on the Internet to move information between computers.
URL Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a webpage.
Usenet The network of newsgroups.
Web Server, A computer that stores web pages and passes them over the Internet whenever the site is visited.
Webmaster The person responsible for maintaining a website.
Website A collection of common webpages..
Winsock S Software used by PCs using MS Windows for TCP/IP.
WWW The World Wide Web .