| ICQ
- "I Seek You" |
Communications
network on the Internet. If you like to know if your
friends are surfing the Web right now, ICQ does the
searching for you, alerting you in real time when your
friends sign on. More information: http://www.icq.net.
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| Impression |
Each
request for a Web
page on a particular server.
These days, most server log
files only count impressions, not "hits"
(which may include requests for graphic files). Counting
the impressions is a good way to measure the popularity
of a Web
site.
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| Information
Superhighway |
U.S.
Vice President Al Gore's allegorical vision on the ideal
Internet (or something like
that). The "information superhighway" is now
another paraphrase of the Internet.
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| Infoseek |
Search
engine at http://www.infoseek.com.
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| Internet |
When
two or more networks
are connected, you have an internet (lower case i).
"The" Internet (upper case i) is the largest
of the internets (the mother-of-all-internets...)
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| Internet
Explorer |
Web
browser from Microsoft.
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| InterNIC
- Internet Network Information Center |
The
InterNIC is the entity that keeps track of the domain
names. Most domain names are registered with the
InterNIC.
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| Intranet |
Private
(company) network
of computers using the same protocols
as the Internet,
but only for internal use. Some sort of small, private
Internet.
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| IP
- Internet Protocol |
The
rules that provide basic Internet
functions. IP allows computers to find each other.
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| IP
Address |
A
unique 32-bit Internet address
consisting of four numbers, separated by dots and
sometimes called a "dotted quad". Every server
- connected to the Internet
- has an IP number. The IP number of webguest.com is
"208.28.202.95".
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| IRC
- Internet Relay Chat |
A
chat
network but the words are not spoken but written. All
words typed by any user are seen by everyone who is in
that "chat room" (or channel) at that moment.
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| ISDN
- Integrated Services Digital Network |
Digital
telephone system that can provide high-speed (up to 128 Kbps)
transmission of voice and data.
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| ISOC
- Internet Society |
The
Internet Society is a non-governmental international
organization to coordinate the Internet
technologies and applications (http://www.isoc.org).
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| ISP
- Internet Service Provider |
1.
An "ISP" provides Internet access to its
members. Every time you log on, your ISP connects you to
the Internet.
2. Any company that provides Internet services such as
Web site development.
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| Java |
A
platform-independent programming language invented by
Sun Microsystems, that Web developers use to create applets.
Java-enabled Web
pages can include animations, calculators, scrolling
text, sound effects and even games. Although many Web
designers like Java because of its possibilities, they
have to take into consideration that many people are surfing
the Web with a Java disabled browser,
simply because they don't want to wait until some applet
is entirely loaded into their browser.
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| JavaScript |
First
of all: JavaScript has nothing to do with Java...
JavaScript is a scripting language designed by Netscape.
JavaScripts are embedded into HTML
documents. It's more complicated than HTML tags, but if
you look at the source code of a JavaScript enabled Web
page, you can easily understand the syntax.
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| JDK
- Java Development Kit |
Sun
Microsystems offers Web designers this software
development package, so they have all the tools to
write, test and debug Java applets.
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| JPEG
- Joint Photographic Experts Group |
Image
compression
standard, optimized for full-color (millions of colors)
digital images. You can choose the amount of
compression, but the higher the compression rate, the
less quality the image has. Almost every full-color
photograph you see on the Web is a JPG file, while GIFs
are used to display clip-art images (up to 256 colors).
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| Kbps
- Kilobits Per Second |
Measure
of data throughput. A 28.8 Kbps modem transfers data at
about 3.6K (kilobytes) per second.
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| Kilobyte
- Kb |
Rounded:
a thousand bytes. Actually, 1024 (2^10) bytes.
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| Knowbie |
Someone
who can guide newbies through cyberspace.
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| LAN
- Local Area Network |
Computer
network
limited to one single location, usually an office.
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| Leased
Line |
Dedicated
phone line that provides a full-time (24/7) connection
from your location to another location. Because you are
the only user on this line, you can achieve higher data
transfer speeds.
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| Link |
Marked
text (usually underlined) or picture within a hypertext
document (Web page). With just one click of your mouse,
a link brings you to another Web
page (or to another place on the same page). Links
are essential in hypertext documents, without links one
can hardly speek of "hyper"text.
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| Linux |
UNIX
based operating system for personal computers. Free
software!
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| Listserv |
Software
for conversations (devoted to one specific topic)
through an electronic mailing
list. Similar to newsgroups
but unlike newsgroups, listservs operate via email
(every contribution of a subscriber is sent to all
subscribers on the list via email). By sending a
predefined email message to the list server in question,
you can easily subscribe or unsubscribe.
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| Location |
Internet
address
as displayed on your browser.
When you type in the URL
of a Web
site into the location bar of your browser, your
browser will take you to this page.
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| Log
File |
File
that contains detailed recorded events of a computer
system, for example: server access log files, error log
files etc.
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| Login |
Entering
into a computer system. Also the account name (or user
ID) that you must enter before you can have access
to some computer systems.
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| Lurk |
In
a chat
room (IRC
channel) or newsgroup,
"lurk" means that you only read the postings,
you are not participating directly.
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