Net speak

Applet A small software application. Applets may display animation, or perform sophisticated database queries, or anything else that a small application does.

Cookie A Cookie is a piece of information sent by a Web Site to your Web browser that the browser software is expected to save and send back to the Website whenever you make additional requests from the Website. Cookies might contain information such as login or registration information, online “shopping cart” information, and user preferences.

FAQ A FAQ is a listing of frequently asked questions that has been put together to be used as a reference guide.

Freeware Software developed by individuals or small companies that costs nothing to use. The developer retains the copyright to the product, so freeware is not in the public domain. Many Internet utilities are freeware or shareware.

IP address IP stands for Internet Protocol. An IP address is a series of numbers that is a given computer’s address on the Internet. Depending on the way you get your access, this number could change for your computer each time that you log onto the network.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator; it is the address for a specific file on a specific computer on the Internet. It can be expressed in numerics or words or some combination of the two.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is a means of copying files from a remote computer to your computer (or the other way around). This comes in handy when you want to download a new game, update your Internet browser or update your web site, more flexible than browser based updates (upload an entire site in one go using any one of the many FTP client software available).

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and it is a way for any number of people to have a real-time discussion over the Internet. There are numerous programs out there for IRC each with slight variations in the offered features.

Spam is when a company (or person) sends email or a posting where it really doesn’t belong and hasn’t been requested. Spam can also be defined as flooding someone with email messages.

GIF and JPEG files. They are both graphics files. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and was created by Compuserve. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Group Format and is one of the industry standards.

HTTP Hypertext Transport Protocol. The protocol for sending files on the World Wide Web, HTTP is what browsers and websites use to send and get files. The string http:// makes up the first part of the URL for all World Wide Web pages.

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