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Stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It refers to the technology to carry high speed data over ordinary phone lines. It is up to 70 times as fast as a 28.8 modem, and can be used concurrently with voice over the same line.
Stands for Application Service Provider. It is a third-party company that distributes software-based services from a central location to customers in other locations.
Refers to the company that provides you with Internet access and in some cases, an online account on their computer system. Sometimes referred to as Internet Service provider.
A network in which the nodes are programmed to perform custom operations on the messages that pass through the node.
A programming language created by Microsoft to enable websites to be more interactive. Example, users can listen to music, watch video, etc.
A marketing program by Google that allows website owners to generate income by putting contextually related advertisements generated by Google on their site. If your site is about pets, the ads that will be generated are those ads pertaining to pets.
A marketing program by Google that allows individuals or business owners to advertise directly on relevant results pages and other content pages throughout the Web.
A software that delivers banner ads or pop-up ads to internet users. It is sometimes installed in freeware or shareware which you download from the Net.
A program used by Internet Marketers whereby website owners promote their products and services through banners, articles, spacial ads in their websites in return for commissions when the website owner's visitors click on the ads and deliver a sale.
A procedure or formula for solving a recurrent problem.
Refers to those characters that are composed of the combined set of the 26 alpahbetic characters and the 10 Arabic numerals.
A new word coined to refer to the shortcuts that people use to represent words or phrases. Example: best4u.
An abbreviation for away from the keyboard
Audio Interchange File Format. A common audio file format originally for Macs, but used with other systems, too.
A way of including content in a web page in which javascript code in the web page fetches some data from a server and displays it without re-fetching the entire surrounding page at the same time (hence the 'Asynchronous')
Aliasing refers to the jagged appearance of graphics, usually appearing like stair steps. Anti-aliasing refers to the softening of these edges.
Refers to the initial stages of testing of newly developed software, normally carried out by in-house personnel.
Refers to the traditional form of login to a public ftp site where the username is given as 'anonymous' and the password is your e-mail address.
Apache is an open-source application originally created from a series of changes ("patches") made to a web server written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the same place the Mosaic web browser was created and is the most common web server software on the Internet.
Stands for Application Program Interface. An interface between the operating system and application programs that specifies how the two communicate with each other.
An application that is downloaded from a web page and executed by browser software. It can also refer to an HTML tag that defines an applet program.
Stands for the network created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that became the Internet.
Stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard way to encode upper and lower case letters in the English alphabet, numbers, and special characters using only seven bits, and therefore limited to 128 characters.
A protocol for syndication and sharing of content, touted as a successor and an improved RSS, having additional features as digital signatures. security, encryption.
Also referred to as certified e-mail, or stamped e-mail. It is a system by which senders of commercial email pay a small amount to ensure that their messages are not filtered by anti-spam programs.
A computer program that automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who submits an email.
A graphical representation on a computer screen that represents a particular computer user, especially one of several users who are having a conversation with each other on the Internet.
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