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Term Definition
applet A mini-program that can be downloaded quickly and used by any computer...
active server page (ASP) a specification for a webpage that is dynamically created by the web s...
application a program that helps the user accomplish a specific task; for example,...
alias An alias is an e-mail address that forwards its mail to a specified ma...
autoresponder An e-mail that is automatically sent in reply to any e-mail received i...
bandwidth a measurement of the amount of information that can be transmitted ove...
backbone The Internet's high-speed data highway that serves as a major access p...
browser compatibility A term that compares the way a Web page looks on one WWW browser as op...
browser support This refers to the ability of a particular browser to even recognize a...
configuration A general-purpose computer term that refers to the way your computer's...
cache where computer memory is stored
ColdFusion A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system created by the Allaire Co...
cookie A piece of information about your computer, something you clicked on, ...
daemon a UNIX program that runs continuously in the background, until it is a...
dedicated belonging to only one user. For example, a dedicated IP address is a t...
disk space the amount of storage space you can use for storing HTML and graphics ...
DNS A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name. Fo...
domain (domain name) the name of a company, organization or person's Internet connection, w...
FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions
GB giga byte; 1,024 megabytes or 1 billion characters of information
encryption A way of making data unreadable to everyone except the receiver, encry...
firewall A device that protects a private network from the public part, or a co...
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format A common format for image files, especially suitable for images contai...
GUI - Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) This term refers to a software front-end application meant to provide ...
hit 1. The retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic, from a Web ser...
host Any computer that can function as the beginning and end point of data ...
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide W...
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol The protocol that tells the server what to send to the client, so the ...
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure A type of server software that provides the ability for secure transac...
hyperlink a link in an HTML document that leads to another World Wide Website, o...
IMAP Internet Mail (or Message) Access Protocol. Through IMAP the user can ...
IP address The Internet Protocol address; a numeric address such as 123.231.32.2 ...
MB megabyte; 1,048,576 bytes or 1,024 kilobytes. Used to measure computer...
mail list A system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, whereupon t...
MySQL a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld...
PGP Pretty Good Privacy. An encryption program that allows users to exchan...
mailbox The directory on a host computer where your e-mail message are stored....
meta tag An optional HTML tag that is used to specify information about a Web d...