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Abilene Network — Ad hoc network — Address resolution protocol — ADSL — AirPort — Al Gore controversies — All your base are belong to us — AOL — AOL Time Warner — APNIC — AppleTalk — Application Configuration Access Protocol — Archimedes Plutonium — Archie search engine — ARIN — ASN.1 — Asynchronous Transfer Mode — Auction — Authentication — Automatic teller machine — Autonomous system Abilene Network is the U.S. high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community. ... A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of mobile routers (and associated hosts) connected by wireless links—the union of which form an arbitrary topology. ... In computer networking using the Internet Protocol suite, the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is the method for finding a hosts MAC address when only its IP address is known. ... Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ... Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001) and 2000 Democratic Party presidential nominee, has been the subject of several controversies. ... The infamous phrase is a piece of subtitled dialogue from the introduction to Zero Wing. ... America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider and Internet service provider that is owned by Time Warner. ... Time Warner Inc. ... The office building that houses APNIC in Brisbane, Australia. ... AppleTalk is a suite of protocols developed by Apple Computer for computer networking. ... The Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) is a protocol which enhances IMAP by allowing the user to set up address books, user options, and other data for universal access. ... Archimedes Plutonium (born July 5, 1950) is primarily noted for his varied and eccentric contributions to Usenet. ... Archie is a search engine designed to index FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. ... The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the United States, Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, parts of the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. ... In telecommunications and computer networking abstract syntax notation one (ASN.1) is a standard, flexible method that describes data structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data. ... Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM for short, is a cell relay network protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed sized (53 byte; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) cells instead of variable sized packets as in packet-switched networks (such as the Internet Protocol or... An auctioneer and her assistants scan the crowd for bidders An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. ... In computer security, authentication (Greek: αυθεντικός, from authentes=author) is the process by which a computer, computer program, or another user attempts to confirm that the computer, computer program, or user from whom the second party has received some communication is, or is not, the... Outdoor ATMs may be free-standing, like this kiosk, or built into the side of banks or other buildings An automatic teller machine or automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic device that allows a banks customers to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances without the need... In the Internet, an autonomous system (AS) is a collection of IP networks and routers, under the control of one or more entities, that presents a common routing policy to the Internet. ...

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Babel fish — Backbone cabal — Base — Bet exchange — Biefeld-Brown effect — Big Brother television program — Blank media tax — Bogon filtering — Book — Bookmark — Border gateway protocol — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network — Broadband Internet — Bulletin board system Anatomy of a babel fish as explained in the BBC TV series The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ... The backbone cabal was a group (or cabal) of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. ... A base is: in mathematics: A number that is raised to a power, or base of an exponential function. ... Betfair Logo A bet exchange or p2p gambling web site is a fairly recent Internet phenomenon, and is used to describe a web site acting as a broker between parties for the placement of bets (gambling, in other words). ... The Biefeld-Brown effect is an effect that was discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown (USA) and Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld (CH). ... Big Brother is a popular reality television format, where, over 10 weeks or so, a number of contestants (typically 10 or 12) try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize. ... A blank media tax (or blank media levy) is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy (additional to any general sales tax) is charged on purchases of recordable media. ... A bogon is an informal name for an IP packet on the public Internet that claims to be from an area of the IP address space reserved, but not yet allocated or delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or a delegated Internet registry. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1) A bookmark is a thin marker, commonly made from paper or leather, used to keep ones place in a printed work and so be able to return to it with ease at some time in the future. ... The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol of the Internet. ... In the 1970s the telecommunications industry conceived that digital services would follow much the same pattern as voice services, and conceived a grandiose vision of end_to_end circuit switched services, known as the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN). ... Broadband Internet access, often shortened to broadband Internet or just broadband is a high data-transmission rate Internet connection. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ...

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Cable modem — CDDB — Censorship in cyberspace — Censorware — Chain letter — Charles Stark Draper Prize — Cisco Systems, Inc. — Citizens' band radio — Classless inter-domain routing — Code Red worm — Common Gateway Interface — Communications protocol — Component object model — Computer — Computer addiction — Computer-assisted language learning — computer network — Computer worm — Computing technology — Concurrent Versions System — Consumer privacy — Content delivery — Coordinated Universal Time — Customer privacy — Cyber law — Cyberpunk — Cybersex — Cyberspace A cable modem is a special type of modem that is designed to modulate a data signal over cable television infrastructure. ... CDDB (which stands for Compact Disc Database) is a database for software applications to look up CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. ... Censorship in cyberspace is often treated as a separate issue from censorship of offline material, but the legal issues are similar. ... Censorware is a term for content filtering software, especially Web filters. ... A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to one or more new recipients. ... The Charles Stark Draper Prize is awarded by the National Academy of Engineering for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. ... Cisco Systems, Inc. ... A typical mobile citizens band radio Citizens band radio (CB) is, in the United States, a system of short distance radio communication between individuals on a selection of 40 channels within the single 27 MHz (11 meter) band. ... Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), introduced starting in 1993, is the latest refinement to the way IP addresses are interpreted. ... The Code Red worm was a computer worm released via the Internet on July 13, 2001 affecting computers running Microsofts Internet Information Server (IIS) web server. ... Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on the Web server. ... This article concerns communication between pairs of electronic devices. ... Component Object Model (COM) is a Microsoft platform for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. ... A drawing of the everyday computer. ... Computer addiction is an obsessive addiction to computers. ... Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which computer technology is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. ... A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ... A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. ... A processors core Computing is a very broad topic that has become pandemic to modern uses of technology. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, implements a version control system: it keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers to collaborate. ... This article or section should be merged with Customer privacy Consumer privacy laws and regulations seek to protect any individual from loss of privacy due to failures or limitations of corporate customer privacy meausures. ... Content delivery describes the delivery of digital media content such as digital audio or digital video over a delivery medium such as broadcasting or the Internet. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ... This article or section should be merged with Consumer privacy Customer privacy measures are those taken by commercial organizations to ensure that confidential customer data is not stolen or abused. ... Cyber law encompasses a wide variety of political and legal issues related to the Internet and other communications technology, including intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. ... Berlins Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ... Cybersex or computer sex or net sex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. ... Cyberspace, a metaphoric abstraction used in philosophy and computing, is a (virtual) reality which represents the Noosphere/World 2 both inside computers and on computer networks. ...

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Dark internet — DDP — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — del.icio.us — Delivermail — Demilitarized zone (computing) — Denial of service — DHCP — Dial-up — Dial-up access — DiffServ — Digital divide — Digital Equipment Corporation — Digital subscriber line — DirecTV — DISH Network — Disk image — Distance-vector routing protocol — DNS — Domain forwarding — Domain name registry — Dust storm — DVB — Dynamic DNS The terms dark internet or dark address refer to any or all of the unreachable network hosts on the Internet. ... DDP can also refer to the German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP) in German. ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ... del. ... The ancestor of sendmail, delivermail used the FTP protocol on the early ARPANET to transmit e-mail to the recipient. ... Diagram of a typical network employing DMZ using a three-legged firewall. ... A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. ... In the context of computer networking, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client-server networking protocol. ... In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ... Dial-up access is an inexpensive but slow form of Internet access in which the client uses a modem to dial the Internet service providers (ISP) node, a dial-up server type such as the Point-to-Point Protocol and TCP/IP protocols to establish a modem-to-modem... DiffServ or differentiated services is a method of trying to guarantee quality of service on large networks such as the Internet. ... The digital divide is the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... A typical DSL Modem Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires used in the last mile of a local telephone network. ... DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States and the rest of the Americas. ... Dish Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that broadcasts digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation NASDAQ: DISH. Dish Network was launched in March 1996, and is DirecTVs primary competitor in the United States. ... A disk image is a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage device. ... A distance-vector routing protocol is a routing protocol used in routing of packet-switched networks in computer communications, as in for example the Routing Information Protocol for Internet traffic. ... The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ... URL redirection is a technique on the world wide web for making a web page available under many URLs. ... In the domain name system on the Internet there is a need for databases to be kept of which domain name maps to which IP address. ... haha ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC... Dynamic DNS is a system for allowing an Internet domain name to be assigned to a varying IP address. ...

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E-card — E-mail — E-Services — EBay — Echo — Eldred v. Ashcroft — Electrical engineering — Electricity — Electronic mailing list — Electronic money — Embrace, extend and extinguish — End-to-end connectivity — Enterprise content management — Entropy — Epoch date — Ethernet — European Installation Bus — EverQuest — Everything2 — Extended ASCII — Extranet An E-card is a postcard, sent by means of the Internet, usually through email. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... e-Services is a term usually referring to the provision of services via the Internet (the prefix e standing for electronic, as it does in many other uses). ... eBay Inc. ... Echo may refer to: Echo (mythology), a nymph from Greek mythology. ... Eldred v. ... Electrical engineering or electrotechnology is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ... Electricity is a general term applied to phenomena involving a fundamental property of matter called an electric charge // Related concepts Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Electronic mailing lists are a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. ... Electronic money (also known as digital money, electronic currency, digital currency or internet money) refers to money which is only exchanged electronically. ... Microsoft, like many other companies in their heyday, has publicly stated that it aims to embrace and extend popular standards and existing work. ... End-to-end connectivity is a property of the Internet that allows all nodes of the network to send packets to all other nodes of the network, without requiring intermediate network elements to further interpret them. ... ... ENTROPY (which stands for Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield) was developed as a response to increased censorship and surveillance of the internet. ... In telecommunication, an epoch date is a date in history, chosen as the reference date from which time is measured. ... Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). ... European Installation Bus (EIB) is the worlds leading system for intelligent electrical installation networking. ... EverQuest (EQ) is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that was released on March 16, 1999. ... Everything2, or E2 for short, is a large collaborative Internet community, currently at www. ... The term extended ASCII (or high ASCII) describes eight-bit or larger character encodings that include the standard seven-bit ASCII characters as well as others. ... An extranet is a private network that uses internet protocols, network connectivity, and possibly the public telecommunication system to securely share part of a businesss information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers or other businesses. ...

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Famous non-quotation — Fan fiction — FAQ — Federal Standard 1037C — Fiber optic — Fidonet — File sharing — File transfer protocol — Finger — Finger protocol — Firefox — Firewall — Flaming — Floppy disk — Focus group — Form — Freelancing on the Internet — Frame relay — FTP A famous non-quotation is a well-known phrase attributed to someone who, in fact, did not say it. ... Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Federal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U.S. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. ... Fiber Optic strands An optical fiber in American English or fibre in British English is a transparent thin fiber for transmitting light. ... The FidoNet logo FidoNet is an inter-connecting file and message transport system that was used by bulletin board systems. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Fingers of the human left hand The finger is any of the digits of the hand in humans and other species such as the great apes. ... In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. ... Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a ring of thin, flexible (i. ... A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging. ... This article is about the word form meaning a type of document. ... // Freelancer Websites The advent of the Internet has created new opportunities for freelancing, particularly for software developers from countries with low average salaries. ... Frame relay, also found written as frame-relay, is an efficient data transmission technique used to send digital information quickly and cheaply to one or many destinations from one or many end-points. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

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Gecko — Geocaching — GIMPS — GNU — Gnutella — Google — Gopher protocol Gecko is the open source web browser layout engine used in all Mozilla-branded software and its derivatives, including later Netscape releases. ... A Geocache in Germany Geocaching is an outdoor activity that most often involves the use of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or traditional navigational techniques to find a geocache (or cache) placed anywhere in the world. ... The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime 95 and MPrime, special open source software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. ... GNU is a free software operating system. ... Gnutella (pronounced ) is a file sharing network used primarily to exchange music, films and software. ... For the search engine produced by this company, see Google search; for the underlying technology, see Google platform; for other uses see Google (disambiguation). ... Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. ...

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Hacker ethic — Hate sites — HDLC — Head end — Hierarchical routing — Hilary Rosen — History of radio — History of the Internet — Home Internet Solution — Homepage — HomePNA — Hop (telecommunications) — HTML — HTTP — HTTPS — Human-computer interaction In modern parlance, the hacker ethic is either: the belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and computing resources wherever possible; and/or the belief that... The term hate site is used by some to refer to websites that are said to promote hatred. ... High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ... Cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. ... Hierarchical routing: Routing that is based on hierarchical addressing. ... Hilary B. Rosen was the chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America from 1998 to 2003. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... As the Internet grew through the 1980s and early 1990s, many people realized the growing need to be able to find and organize files and information. ... Home Internet Solution (HIS) is a DSL technology for Internet access developed by the Swedish telephone company Ericsson. ... Homepage or Home may refer to: the start page or main web page of a website the website of a group or individual the page that is displayed when you enter only a domain name as URL (e. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In telecommunication, the term hop has the following meanings: 1. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... https is a URI scheme equivalent to the http scheme, originally intended to be used with the HTTP protocol, but with added encryption layer. ... Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the study of interaction between people (users) and computers. ...

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ICANN — ICQ — IEEE 802.11 — IIRC — IMAP — IMAPS — Indigenous Dialogues — Infocom — Information Age — Information Awareness Office — Instant messenger — Integrated Services Digital Network — Internet — Internet access in the United States — Internet Archive — Internet backbone — Internet Chess Club — Internet child pornography — Internet control message protocol — Internet democracy — Internet Engineering Task Force — Internet friendship — Internet group management protocol — Internet phone — Internet pornography — Internet Protocol — Internet protocol suite — Internet radio — Internet relay chat — Internet romance — Internet service provider — Internet slang — Internet Society — Internet standard — Internet Storm Center — Internet time — Internet troll — Internet2 — Internetworking — InterNIC — Interpedia — InterWiki — Intranet — iOS — IP address — IP protocol — IPv4 — IPv6 — IPX — IRC — ISCSI — ISDN — ISO 8601 — ISO 8859-1 ICANN (pronounced I can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ... ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, created by Mirabilis, an Israeli start-up company based in Tel-Aviv. ... IEEE 802. ... IIRC - If I Remember Correctly REDIRECT Internet slang ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... The Indigenous Dialogues Foundation (Indiĝenaj Dialogoj or ID) is an international organisation which seeks to empower organisations of indigenous peoples worldwide to communicate directly, freely, and affordably, allowing them to more effectively work together for their common interests. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork trilogy Zork I Zork II Zork III Enchanter trilogy Enchanter Sorcerer Spellbreaker Wishbringer Beyond Zork Zork Zero Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Frobozzica Miscellaneous Timeline   Calendar   Magic Double Fanucci Companies Infocom   Activision Infocom was an American software company, based in... Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, more narrowly applying to the 1980s or 1990s onward. ... The Information Awareness Office is a mass surveillance development branch of the United States Department of Defenses Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface An instant messenger is a client which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... An ISDN Telephone Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a type of circuit switched telephone network system, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in better quality and higher speeds than available with analog systems. ... As of 2004, three out of four Americans have Internet access in the United States, with more than 50% of these being broadband connections. ... Internet Archive headquarters. ... The Internet backbone was the central network that linked all the parts of the Internet together. ... The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ... The term child pornography (sometimes referred to as kiddie porn) generally refers to pornography featuring a child, however the precise definition of pornography and child varies by region and country. ... The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... Internet democracy is a derivative term for e-democracy (electronic democracy), especially related to projects and concepts centered on using the Internet (and not other electronic communications technologies like short message services or teletext) for deliberative and participatory aims. ... The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards, in particular, those of the TCP/IP protocol suite. ... Internet friendships are friendships between people who have met online, and in some cases know each other only via the Internet. ... The Internet Group Management Protocol is a communications protocol used to manage the membership of Internet Protocol multicast groups. ... An internet phone is a special voice over IP (VOIP) terminal that is designed to be used over the public Internet. ... Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed via the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing software, IRC and through Usenet newsgroups. ... The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commerical networks run. ... Internet radio is a broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... Internet romance is when two people are having a romantic relationship while communicating through the Internet. ... An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Internet slang consists of slang which users of the Internet have developed and/or utilized. ... The Internet Society or ISOC is an international organization that promotes Internet use and access. ... Internet standards are defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ... The Internet Storm Center (ISC) is a group which monitors the level of activity on the Internet, particularly with regards to large-scale slowdowns or stoppages. ... Internet time was a common catchphrase that originated during the late-1990s Internet boom. ... // In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages on the internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. ... Internetworking involves connecting two or more distinct computer networks together into an internetwork (often shortened to internet), using devices called routers to connect themnet. ... InterNIC or Internet Network Information Center was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name and IP address allocations until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the ICANN body. ... The Interpedia was the name given to the first proposals for an Internet encyclopedia which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalog of all Interpedia pages. ... InterWiki (International Wiki) is a facility for creating links to the many wiki wiki webs on the World Wide Web. ... An intranet is a private network that uses internet protocols, network connectivity, and possibly the public telecommunication system to securely share part of an organizations information or operations with its employees. ... Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the operating system used on Cisco Systems routers and some network switches (those which dont use CatOS). ... An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. ... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... IPv4 is version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IP). ... This article may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to be clearer. ... Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) is at the Network layer of the OSI model and is part of the IPX/SPX protocol stack. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... In the context of computer storage, Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is an official standard ratified on February 11, 2003 by the Internet Engineering Task Force, uses the SCSI protocol over a TCP/IP network. ... An ISDN Telephone Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a type of circuit switched telephone network system, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in better quality and higher speeds than available with analog systems. ... ISO 8601 is an international standard for date and time representations. ... ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding originally developed by ISO, but later jointly maintained by ISO and IEC. The standard, when supplemented with additional character assignments, is the...

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JAIN — James H. Clark — Java platform — JavaScript — Jon Postel — JPEG — JSTOR JAIN is an activity within the Java Community Process, developing APIs for the creation of telephony (voice and data) services. ... Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) first became famous for technological advancement in computer graphics but later became known as one of the most famous entrepreneurs in economic history. ... The Java platform is the name for a computing environment, or platform, from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. ... JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ... A photo of a flower compressed with successively lossier compression ratios from left to right. ... JSTOR®, begun in 1995, is an online system for archiving academic journals. ...

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KA9Q — KARNAC — Ken McVay — Kendra initiative — Kerberos KA9Q, also called KA9Q NOS or simply NOS, was a popular early implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and smaller personal computers connected via serial lines. ... KARNAC is an acronym for Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context; it is a system being developed in the United States for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents. ... Ken McVay OBC, a Canadian-American dual citizen, is one of the Internets foremost experts on the subject of Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. ... The Kendra initiative is an initiative to create ways of using the Internet to discover, use, share and pay for digital media such as music, web content, books and films, by creating compromises between the desires of producers and consumers of digital media. ... Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol which allows individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. ...

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LACNIC — Large Technical System — Larry Page — Laser — The last page of the Internet — Legal aspects of computing — Lightweight Directory Access Protocol — Link-state routing protocol — Linux Network Administrators' Guide — List of computing topics — list of information technology management topics — List of portmanteaus — List of telecommunication network terms — LiveJournal — Load balancing — Local area network — Loopback — Lycos The Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) is the Regional Internet Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Google co-founder Larry Page Lawrence E. Page, more commonly known as Larry Page (born March 26, 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is one of the founders of the Google internet search engine and is currently the President of Products of Google Inc. ... The range of sizes in which lasers exist is immense, extending from microscopic diode lasers (top) to football field sized neodymium glass lasers (bottom) used for inertial confinement fusion. ... There exist several pages on the Internet which claim to be the last page of the Internet. ... There are many legal aspects to computing - some of which are listed below. ... In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, is a standardized networking protocol designed for querying and modifying directory services. ... A Link-state routing protocol is one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet-switched networks for computer communications. ... The Linux Network Administrators Guide (NAG) is a book on setting up and running Unix networks. ... This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia that are related to computing. ... Management information systems an overview E-business Intranet strategies Database management system Data warehousing Data mining Document warehousing Customer relationship management (CRM) Sales force management system Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) Business performance management Project management software Integration management Middleware Groupware and collaborative systems RSA Computer... This is a partial list of portmanteaus or blends These words are formed by combining two other words, in the English language. ... This is a list of telecommunication network terms derived from the Glossary of Telecommunication Terms published as Federal Standard 1037C. Please see the Federal Standard article for copyright-related issues, as not all parts of the source document are in the public domain. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is the name of a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. ... In computing, load balancing is a technique used to spread work between many processes, computers, disks or other resources. ... A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. ... A loopback is a communications channel with only one endpoint. ... Lycos is an Internet search engine and web directory. ...

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Mailbomb — Make money fast — Market capitalization — Matt Drudge — Media player — Medium — Melissa worm — MenuetOS — Metcalfe's law — Metropolitan area network — MicroPat iOS — Microsoft .NET — Microsoft SQL Server — Mikrotik — Miller test — Mirror — Modem — Modulation — Morris worm — Mozilla Firefox — Mozilla Thunderbird — MP2 — Multicast — MUMPS A mailbomb (or mail bomb), also called parcel bomb or letter bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed to explode when opened, injuring or killing the recipient, usually someone the sender has a personal grudge against, or more indiscriminately as part of a terrorist campaign. ... Make money fast was a title of an electronically forwarded chain letter which became so famous that the term is now used to describe all sorts of chain letters forwarded over the Internet, by e-mail spam or Usenet newsgroups. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a business term that refers to the aggregate value of a firms outstanding common shares. ... Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet news personality. ... A media player is a piece of application software for playing back multimedia files. ... The word medium (from Latin, in which it means, the one in the middle) can have different meanings in different contexts. ... The Melissa worm, also known as Mailissa, Simpsons, Kwyjibo, or Kwejeebo, is a computer worm that also functions as a macro virus, hence making it a multipartite virus. // History First found on March 26, 1999, Melissa shut down Internet mail systems that got clogged with infected e-mails propogating from... MenuetOS (also known as MeOS) is an operating system, written in assembly language (FASM) by Ville Mikael Turjanmaa for the 64-bit and 32-bit x86 architecture computers. ... Metcalfes law states that the value of a network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the system (n2). ... Metropolitan Area Networks or MANs are large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. ... The . ... Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system produced by Microsoft. ... Mikrotikls, also known as Mikrotik, is a Latvian networking equipment manufacturer. ... The Miller test is the United States Supreme Courts test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited. ... Mirror (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A modem (a portmanteau word constructed from modulator and demodulator) is a device that modulates a carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ... Modulation is the process of varying a carrier signal, typically a sinusoidal signal, in order to use that signal to convey information. ... The Morris worm or Internet worm was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet; it is considered the first worm and was certainly the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ... MP2 can refer to: MP2 (format) audio files This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Multicast is the delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once and only create copies when the links to the destinations split. ...

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Napster — National Security Agency — NetBIOS — Netcyclo — Netiquette — Netscape Communicator — Netwar — Network address translation — Network Control Program — Network File System — Network Information Centre — Network Mapping — Network News Transfer Protocol — Network protocol design principles — Network time protocol — News agency — NewsMonster — Newsreader — News server — Nikola Tesla — Non-repudiation — Noun — Novell — NSD — NSFNet — NTLM — Nude celebrities on the Internet Second version (revised 2001) of Napster logo: Cat wearing headphones. ... NSA seal The National Security Agency / Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is the largest United States government intelligence agency. ... NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. ... netcyclo is an Internet encyclopedia project based in the United Kingdom. ... Netiquette (neologism, a portmanteau formed from Internet etiquette) is a catch-all term for the conventions of politeness recognised on Usenet, in mailing lists, and otheir electronic forums such as internet message boards. ... Netscape Communicator was a proprietary Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. ... Netwar is a societal level ideational conflict(s) waged in part through internetted modes of communication. ... In computer networking, the process of network address translation (NAT, also known as network masquerading or IP-masquerading) involves re-writing the source and/or destination addresses of IP packets as they pass through a router or firewall. ... The Network Control Program (sometimes the abbreviation NCP is mistakenly expanded to Network Control Protocol, but this term is not found in the contemporary documentation) was the original protocol suite of the ARPANET. In NCP, the physical layer, the data link layer, and the network layer were all specified by... Network File System (NFS) is a protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 and defined in RFCs 1094, 1813, and 3530 (obsoletes 3010), as a distributed file system which allows a computer to access files over a network as easily as if they were on its local disks. ... A Network Information Centre (NIC), also known as domain registry, is part of the Domain Name System of the Internet. ... Network mapping or Internet Mapping is the study of the physical connectivity of the Internet. ... The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. ... ... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronising the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. ... A news agency is an organization journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ... In computers, NewsMonster is an RSS aggregator that runs inside a Mozilla-based web browser. ... A Newsreader is as a person that represents a radio or tv show. ... A news server is a set of computer software used to handle Usenet articles. ... Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – c. ... Non-repudiation is the concept of ensuring that a contract, especially one agreed to via the Internet, cannot later be denied by one of the parties involved. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... Novell, Inc. ... In Internet computing, NSD (for name server daemon) is a server program for the Domain Name System. ... National Science Foundation Network (NSFNet) was a major part of early 1990s Internet backbone. ... NTLM (NT LAN Manager), a computer networking cryptography protocol, operates in a variety of Microsoft Windows network protocols for authentication purposes. ... Along with almost every other communication technology ever invented, the Internet has been popular for transmission of pornography. ...

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Online — online banking — Online Books Page — OpenCola — Open mail relay — Open shortest path first — Open Site — OpenNAP — OS/390 — OSI model — OSPF — Out-of-band; Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ... Online banking (or Internet banking) is a term used for performing transactions, payments etc. ... The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. ... OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. ... An open mail relay is an SMTP (email) server configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to relay (i. ... Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state, hierarchical Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing protocol. ... Open Site is a free internet encyclopedia with many editors. ... OpenNAP is a piece of free software that replicates the functionality of the once-popular Napster peer-to-peer filesharing server. ... OS/390 is an IBM operating system for the System/370 and System/390 IBM mainframe computers. ... The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Model or OSI Reference Model for short) is a layered abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design, developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnect initiative. ... Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state, hierarchical Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing protocol. ... Out-of-band signaling is telecommunication signaling (exchange of information in order to control a telephone call) that is done on a channel that is dedicated for the purpose and separate from the channels used for the telephone call. ...

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Packet radio — Packet switching — Parasitic computing — Parental controls — Paul Mockapetris — Paul Vixie — PayPal — Peer-to-peer — Peering — Pen pal — Perl — Personal area network — Ping — PKZIP — Plug-and-play — Point-to-Point Protocol — Political media — POP — POP3 — POPS — Pornography — Port forwarding — Port scan — Pretty Good Privacy — Primary mirror — Private IP address — Project Galactic Guide — Project Gutenberg — Projectvoyeur.com — Protocol — Protocol stack — Pseudonymous remailer — PSOS — Public switched telephone network — Publishing — Pyramid scheme Packet radio is a form of digital data transmission used in amateur radio to construct wireless computer networks. ... In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ... Parasitic computing is a computing technology where a remote computer tricks a target computer into performing computations of a complex nature under disguise of a standard communications session. ... Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television services, violent computer and video games, or computer software used to access the Internet, that allows a parent to limit what a child can see or do. ... Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in 1983 in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. ... Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. ... PayPal is an Internet business which allows the transfer of money between email users and merchants, avoiding traditional paper methods such as checks/cheques and money orders. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Peering is the practice of exchanging Internet traffic between the data networks of different Internet service providers. ... Pen pals (or penpals or pen friends) are people who regularly write each other, in particular in the case of snail mail. ... Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below) is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. ... A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network used for communication among computer devices (including telephones and personal digital assistants) close to one person. ... ping in a Windows 2000 command window Ping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet). ... PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. ... Plug and Play is a term used in the computer field to describe a computers ability to have new devices, normally peripherals, added to it without having to restart the computer. ... In computing, the Point-to-Point Protocol, or PPP, is commonly used to establish a direct connection between two nodes. ... Political media are communication vehicles that are owned, ruled, managed, or otherwise influenced by political entities (eventually governmental entities too) or by opinion groups. ... A point-of-presence (POP) is an artificial demarcation or interface point between communications entities. ... In computing, Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer Internet standard protocol that a local client uses to retrieve email from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. ... People Oriented Parsing Service. ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφία pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn, porno, and more recently, pr0n) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ... It is common to configure port forwarding on routers over a web interface. ... A port scanner is software designed to search a network host for open ports. ... Pretty Good Privacy(PGP) is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ... A primary mirror is a form of distributed data management on the Internet. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with private network. ... Project Galactic Guide (PGG) is a collaborative project inspired by The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the fictional encyclopedia in books by Douglas Adams. ... Project Gutenberg (often abbreviated as PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works. ... Projectvoyeur. ... The word protocol derives from a Greek phrase meaning first leaf, referring to the first draft of a treaty. ... A protocol stack is a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite. ... A pseudonymous remailer or nym server, as opposed to an anonymous remailer, is an Internet software program designed to allow people to write anonymous messages on Usenet newsgroups and send anonymous email under a pseudonym. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concentration of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concentration of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ... Publishing is the activity of putting information into the public arena. ... A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered. ...

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QNX — QOTD — Quality of Service — QuickTime QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ... The QOTD (Quote of the Day) ARPA Internet protocol RFC 865 is used for testing and measurement purposes. ... In the fields of packet-switched networks and computer networking, the traffic engineering term Quality of Service (QoS) refers to the probability of the telecommunication network meeting a given traffic contract, or in many cases is used informally to refer the probability of a packet succeeding in passing between two... QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive virtual reality panoramic images. ...

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Radio station — Red Hat — Regex — Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 — Request for Comments — RIPE — RISC OS — Root nameserver — Routing — Routing information protocol — RPC — RSA — RTP — RTSP A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ... Alternate meanings: See Red hat Red Hat, Inc. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIP or RIPA) is a United Kingdom law covering the interception of communications. ... In internetworking and computer network engineering, Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies. ... Réseaux IP Européens is a collaborative forum open to all parties interested in wide area IP networks. ... RISC OS (Reduced Instruction Set Computing Operating System) is a British GUI operating system for ARM-processor based computers or similar devices. ... A root nameserver is a DNS server that answers requests for the root namespace domain, and redirects requests for a particular top-level domain to that TLDs nameservers. ... This article discusses routing in computer networks. ... This article is chiefly about the Routing Information Protocol for IPv4 and IPv6. ... A remote procedure call (RPC) is a protocol that allows a computer program running on one host to cause code to be executed on another host without the programmer needing to explicitly code for this. ... In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public-key encryption. ... The Real-time Transport Protocol (or RTP) defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over the Internet. ... RTSP is the Real Time Streaming Protocol developed by the IETF and published in 1998 as RFC 2326. ...

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SCADA — Scientology vs. the Internet — scp — Script kiddie — Search engine — Secret identity — Secure shell — Sequenced packet exchange — Sergey Brin — Serial line IP — sftp — Signalling System 7 — Simple network management protocol — Slashdot effect — SLIP — SMB — Smiley — SMTP — Social engineering (computer security) — Software development kit — Sohonet — Spam — SPX — Spyware — SQL slammer worm — SSH — Stateful firewall — Stateless firewall — Steganography — Submarine communications cable SCADA is the acronym for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. ... Scientology versus the Internet is the colloquial term for a long-running online dispute between the Church of Scientology and a number of the Churchs online critics. ... Secure Copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local and a remote host or between two remote hosts, using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. ... In computing, a script kiddie (occasionally script bunny, script kitty or skiddie) is a derogatory term for inexperienced crackers who use scripts and programs developed by others, without knowing what they are or how they work, for the purpose of compromising computer accounts and files, and for launching attacks on... The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its powerful PageRank algorithm and its simple, easy-to-use interface. ... A secret identity is the practice of hiding a persons identity so the actual identity of the person is not known or suspected. ... In computing, Secure Shell or SSH is both a computer program and an associated network protocol designed for logging into and executing commands on a networked computer. ... Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX) is an old Novell protocol used to manage the Novell Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) that allowed Novell Servers and clients to communicate over LAN (Local Area Networks) and WAN (Wide Area Networks). ... Sergey Brin at the Web 2. ... The Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is a mostly obsolete encapsulation of the Internet Protocol designed to work over serial ports and modem connections. ... SFTP may refer to: SSH file transfer protocol, a network protocol designed by the IETF to provide secure file transfer and manipulation facilities over the secure shell (SSH) protocol. ... Signalling System #7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signalling protocols which are used to set up the vast majority of the worlds PSTN telephone calls. ... The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) forms part of the internet protocol suite as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force. ... The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. ... In telecommunications, a slip is a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The smiley has gone through many incarnations over the years, but it consistently retains the same features. ... Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ... In the field of computer security, social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users. ... A software development kit (SDK), is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system or similar. ... Sohonet is a community-of-interest network for the television, film and media production community. ... Spamming is the abuse of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk. ... SPX can refer to: Sequenced packet exchange S&P 500 index ticker This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Malicious websites may attempt to install spyware on readers computers. ... The SQL slammer worm is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05:30 UTC on January 25, 2003. ... In computing, Secure Shell or SSH is both a computer program and an associated network protocol designed for logging into and executing commands on a networked computer. ... In computing, a stateful firewall (any firewall that performs stateful packet inspection or stateful inspection) is a firewall that keeps track of the state of network connections (such as TCP streams) traveling across it. ... In computing, a stateless firewall is a firewall that treats each network frame (or packet) in isolation. ... Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message itself is not disguised, but the meaning is obscured. ... A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to carry telecommunications between countries. ...

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Taipei 101 — TCP — TCP and UDP port numbers — Ted Nelson — Telecommunication — Telecommunications network — Telecommunications traffic engineering — Teledesic — Telegraphy — Teleprinter — Telnet — The Cathedral and the Bazaar — The last page of the Internet — The Worldwide Lexicon — Think tank — Thunderbird — Time to live — Timeline of communication technology — Timeline of computing 1950-1979 — Timeline of computing 1980-1989 — Tiscali — Token ring — Top-level domain — Traceroute — Transmission Control Protocol — Transmission system — Transport Layer Security — Trusted computing — TTL — List of Internet-related terminology Taipei 101 is a 101-floor skyscraper located in Taipei, Taiwan. ... The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... IANA is responsible for assigning TCP and UDP port numbers to specific uses. ... Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson (born circa 1939) invented the term hypertext in 1963 and published it in 1965, and is a pioneer of information technology. ... BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. ... A telecommunications network is a network of telecommunications links arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links. ... For another meaning of the term traffic engineering, please see transport traffic engineering. ... Teledesic was a 1990s proposal to build a commercial broadband satellite constellation for Internet services. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far and graphein = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... Teletype machines in World War II A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is a now largely obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter which can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point through a simple electrical communications channel, often just a pair of wires. ... TELNET is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network LAN connections. ... The Cathedral and the Bazaar is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. ... There exist several pages on the Internet which claim to be the last page of the Internet. ... The Worldwide Lexicon (WWL) is an open source project to specify a protocol for querying multi-lingual dictionaries, semantic networks and lexicon servers over the Internet, and to produce software which can carry out these queries and facilitate contributing to such databases. ... This article is about the institution. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ... In computer and computer network technology, time to live (sometimes abbreviated TTL) is a limit on the period of time that a unit of data (e. ... Timeline of communication technology 3500s BC - The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing 3000s BC - Egyptians develop papyrus for writing 1500s BC - The Phoenicians develop an alphabet 170 BC - Parchment is discovered in Pergamum after the Ptolemaic dynasty cuts off the supply of papyrus 26-37... This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 1950 to 1979. ... This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 1980 to 1989. ... Archaeological village of Nuragici people, in Sardinia, Italy. ... Token-Ring local area network (LAN) technology was developed and promoted by IBM in the early 1980s and standardised as IEEE 802. ... A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any URL. For example, in the domain name wikipedia. ... tracert in action on Windows XP. traceroute is a TCP/IP utility which allows the user to determine the route packets take to reach a particular host. ... The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... In telecommunications a transmission system is a system that transmits a signal from one place to another. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Trusted computing (TC) refers to a technology advocated by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). ... In computer and computer network technology, time to live (sometimes abbreviated TTL) is a limit on the period of time that a unit of data (e. ... As the Internet has expanded and new technologies arise in relation to the Internet, so has new terminology, abbreviations, and neologisms. ...

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UDDI — UKP — Ultrix — Ungermann-Bass — Uniform Resource Identifier — Uniform Resource Locator — Universal plug-and-play — University of California, Berkeley — Usenet — Usenet cabal — User datagram protocol — UTF-16 — UUCP UDDI is an acronym for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration – A platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. ... UKP may stand for: Unbounded Knapsack Problem, see Unbounded Knapsack Problem for the algorithm Pound Sterling, the currency (correctly termed GBP) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Ultrix was the brand name of Digital Equipment Corporations (DEC) native Unix systems. ... Ungermann-Bass, also known as UB, was a computer networking company in the 1980s to 1990s. ... A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is an Internet protocol element consisting of a short string of characters that conform to a certain syntax. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Uniform Resource Identifier. ... Universal plug-and-play (UPnP) is a set of computer network protocols promulgated by the UPnP Forum. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... A Usenet cabal is a supposedly mythical organisation which apparently moderated all groups and generally controlled the whole of Usenet newsgroup traffic; any direct mention of them is generally followed by the abbreviation TINC - There Is No Cabal. ... The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... UUCP stands for Unix to Unix CoPy, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper in a store and forward fashion. ...

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vCard — Victorian Internet — Vint Cerf — Virtual community — Voice over IP vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. ... The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes. ... Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. ... A virtual community is a group of people communicating or interacting with each other by means of information technologies, typically the Internet, rather than face to face. ... A typical VoIP Solution A typical analog telephone adapter for connecting an ordinary phone to a VoIP network Voice over Internet Protocol (also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, and Digital Phone) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP-based network. ...

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WAI — War driving — Warez — Warhol worm — WAV — WBX — Web annotation — Web application — Web browser — Web commerce — Web design — Web directory — Web hosting — Web portal — Web server — Web service — Web traffic — Web TV — Webcam — WebDAV — Webmail — Webpage — WebQuest — Website — Whois — Wi-Fi — Wide area information server — Wide area network — Wiki software — Wikipedia — WikiWikiWeb — Windows 3.x — Winsock — Wireless access point — Wireless Application Protocol — Wireless community network — World Wide Web — WorldForge WAI may stand for: Otaku Web Accessibility Initiative Wai (倭) is the Cantonese pronunciation of an ancient name of Japan, transcribed as Wei from Mandarin Chinese, and Wa from Japanese. ... Wardriving is an activity consisting of driving around with a laptop or a PDA in ones vehicle, detecting Wi-Fi wireless networks. ... A street vendor packing up his display of counterfeit CDs after being photographed. ... A Warhol worm is an extremely rapidly propagating computer worm that spreads as fast as physically possible, infecting all vulnerable machines on the entire Internet in 15 minutes or less. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for WAVE form audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... The World Bet Exchange (WBX) is a London based bet exchange that allows its members from all over the world to bet with each other in their own language and currency in a large number of betting markets. ... A Web annotation is an online-annotation associated with a Web resource (typically a Web page). ... In software engineering, a web application is an application delivered to users from a web server over a network such as the World Wide Web or an intranet. ... Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... Web commerce is a form of electronic commerce that is conducted primarily through the World Wide Web, but may also utilize email and other aspects of the internet. ... Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications. ... ... Web hosting is a service that provides individuals, organizations and users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the Web. ... A web portal is a web site that provides a starting point or gateway to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. ... The term web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them web pages, which are usually HTML documents. ... According to the W3C a Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. ... Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004 Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. ... A web TV is a specially-adapted television set designed to allow internet connection, or more commonly, a set-top box (i. ... A Creative webcam A web camera (or webcam) is a real time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling application. ... WebDAV is an Internet Engineering Task Force working group. ... Webmail is a class of web applications that allow users to read and write e-mail using a web browser, or in a more general sense, an email account accessed through such an application. ... A webpage or web page is a page of the World Wide Web, usually in HTML/XHTML format (the file extensions are typically htm or html) and with hypertext links to enable navigation from one page or section to another. ... In education, WebQuest. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. ... Wi-Fi (or Wi-fi, WiFi, Wifi, wifi) is a set of product compatibility standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802. ... Wide Area Information Servers or WAIS is a distributed text searching system that uses the protocol standard ANSI Z39. ... A wide area network or WAN is a computer network covering a wide geographical area, involving a vast array of computers. ... Wiki software is a type of collaborative software that runs a Wiki system. ... The Wikipedia logo. ... The WikiWikiWeb, or simply WikiWiki or Wiki (with a capital W), is the first ever wiki (a collection of reader-modifiable Web pages). ... The Windows 3. ... Winsock 2 logo In computing, Winsock (short for Windows Sockets) is a specification that defines how Windows network software should access network services, especially TCP/IP. // Background Early Microsoft operating systems, both MS-DOS and Windows, offered limited networking capability, chiefly based on NetBIOS (a technology that Microsoft adopted from... Wireless access point Planet WAP-4000 In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP or AP) is a device that connects wireless communication devices together to create a wireless network. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Wireless community networks or wireless community projects are the largely hobbyist-led development of interlinked computer networks using wireless LAN technologies, taking advantage of the recent development of cheap, standardised 802. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ... The WorldForge Project is producing an open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. ...

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X.25 — XDR — Xerox Network Services — XML — XS4ALL X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for WAN networks using the phone or ISDN system as the networking hardware. ... eXternal Data Representation (XDR) is an implementation of the presentation layer in the OSI model. ... Xerox network services (XNS) is a protocol stack which provided routing and packet delivery developed by Xerox at Xerox PARC in the later 1970s and early 1980s. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... XS4ALL (pronounced access for all) is the second-oldest ISP in the Netherlands, after NLnet (But xs4all was the first company offering internet for individuals). ...

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Yahoo! — Yahoo! Internet Life For other uses, see Yahoo. ... Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. ...

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Zephyr instant messenger protocol Created at MIT, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messenger protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix background. ...