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An acronym that stands for Business to Business. These sites are for businesses, normally with a common purpose and only other businesses can access them or make purchases.
An acronym that stands for Business to Consumer. These are normally websites that sells products or services directly to the consumer.
An acronym that stands for Business to Distributors.
An acronym that stands for a corporate portal or people portal. It uses the Web to give the employees access to applications, tools and services.
An acronym that stands for Business to Government. This is a portal that allows businesses and government agencies to use Web sites to exchange information and do business with each other.
An acronym for Bulletin Board System. This is a system that lets people read each other's messages and post new ones.
An abbreviation for bye for now. Used in various online communications such as emails and postings to newsgroups.
Also referred to as inverse mapping which is a technique used in texture mapping to create a 2D image from a 3D data.
Refers to the tendency of people to ignore banner ads on Web sites. It's a term coined by researchers Benway and Lane in 1998, when they found that users have a tendency to ignore information when they are in the form of banners.
A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network.
Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in seconds.
A program that sends one or more files of known size over a network to a distant computer (for example, your own computer), measures the time required for the file(s) to successfully download at the destination, and thereby obtains a theoretical figure for the data speed between two or more points, usually measured by kilobits per second or megabits per second.
Refers to an unusually alrge file that takes a long time to download.
A binary file, unlike an AsCII file, contains more than plain text. It may contain additional code information for photos, sounds, a spreadsheet, or formatted word-processing text. It is made up of machine-readable symbols that represent 1s and 0s. Binary files include sound files, graphics files and software, and are frequently called binaries.
Short for binary digit. It is the smallest unit of data a computer can handle. Bits are used in various combinations to represent different kinds of data. Each bit has a value of 0 or 1.
A bitmapped image is one made from an array of dots rather than continuous lines or areas.
This is a a network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet.
A blog is the short for weblog.This is a publicly accessible personal journal, usually updated on a regular basis. It has become the fastest growing mode of communication on the Net. The person who has a blog is called a blogger.
The term used to refer to the community of bloggers
Derived from the word "robot,". A bot is a software program that performs repetitive functions. One of the most famous internet robot is the Googlebot, the robot that indexes sites.
Also known as Favorites. It is a way to store in your address bar the direct links to sites that you wish to visit again.
The return of a piece of mail because of an error in its delivery.
An abbreviation for bits per second. It is a measurement of how fast data is transmitted. Bps is usually used to describe modem speeds or the speed of a digital connection.
Refers to connections to the Internet, usually using DSL or via cable-TV.
The term used to refer to corporate websites. Normally an online version of a company's annual report, brochures, etc.
The term used when a user follow links in a page, shop around a page.
Commonly called a web browser. A browser is a software program that allows users to view and interact with various kinds of Internet resources available on the Net.
Short for Business Service Provider. This is a service that rents out business applications through the Net rather than purchasing them.
An abbreviation for by the way. Commonly used in emails and postings in BBS and newsgroups.
A term used to refer to testing a new electronic device by letting it run for a specified period of time; Also refers to the permanent image that can be etched into a computer screen when the display does not change for many hours.
A byte is a series of bits of a particular length, usually 8. Computer bytes is the unit to measure computer storage. A kilobyte means 1024 bytes.
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