m2m

maillist

majordomo

merchant account

metacrawler

metatags

mirror sites

Mosaic

Mozilla

MySpace

An acronym for manufacturer to manufacturer.

A standard for storing and transmitting music in digital format developed by Leonardo Chiariglione in January 1988.

Also referred to as answerbot or autoresponder. It is an email server designed to give automatic responses to email requests.

Also knows as mailing list. A system whereby a user or subscriber is able to send a mail to a single address which will then be blasted to all the names in the list.

A mailing list server that runs under UNIX operating system.

An agreement between a bank/credit card processor and a seller that spells out the terms for accepting credit card payments and funds transfer.

MetaCrawler is a Web search service which searches several Web search engines simultaneously. It is a search engine of search engines.  URL: www.metacrawler.com

Refers to the html tags that are written into the head section of the website but is not visible to the visitor. The tags contain the keywords for the page.  Some seach engines use metatags to index pages although the major ones largely ignore them now because of abuse.

These are website or siles that have been copied on another server so that the files can be accessed from more than one place. Mirror sites are usually employed by sites that have very big traffic.

The first WWW browser released in 1993 developed by

the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, in Illinois, USA.

The nickname given by Netscape for its open-source browser.

A social networking website where anybody above 14 can post their profile and meet new friends.