applet
Small application program that runs inside another, larger
program; applets can be contained within a Web document to create a
more dynamic environment than is possible with HTML alone
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bandwidth
Rate of transmission of information per unit of time over a
telecommunications medium; for computers, bandwidth is measured in bits
per second
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BASIC
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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baud
Bits per second (an old school term, baud is not very accurate
because of the varying rates of state changes per second)
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bit
Binary digit; the smallest unit of storage in computers, a bit
is either a 1 or a 0; computers generally process information in
packets of 8 bits (called a byte); abbreviated
b
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browser
Program that reads code from a
server
and presents it to the user, allowing him/her to view and navigate
hypertext
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byte
Unit of storage that represents one character; equal to 8 bits;
abbreviated
B
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CaTS
Computing and Telecommunication Services (Wright State University)
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CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read-Only Memory
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CGI
Computer generated image
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client
An application that requests information from a
server
and/or relies on it to perform specified functions
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COM1 (COM2, or COM3)
First (second, or third) serial port (usually on the back of the
computer)
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Dynamic HTML
New set of
HTML
extensions that allows a user to interact with a web page without
multiple requests from the server
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DVD
Digital versatile disk
holding at least 4.7GB (and up to 17GB) of information; developed for
multimedia, a single DVD can hold enough information for a full-length
movie; one can potentially hold 28 times the information of a
CD-ROM
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frames
A web page feature that allows the viewer to see multiple areas
of information (frames) simultaneously
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FTP
File-transfer
Protocol
; format for transmitting files across the Internet
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HTML
Hypertext Mark-up Language; code used for creating the majority
of pages on the World Wide Web
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http
Hypertext transfer
protocol
; standard format for the transfer of information on the World Wide Web
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Internet address
Registered IP address for a private network connected to the
Internet
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ISDN
Integrated services digital network; international standard for
transmitting data across digital telephone lines; capable of sending
data much faster than the traditional analog lines
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ISP
Internet service provider
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IP address
Internet Protocol address; a 32-bit numeric address,
represented by four numbers ranging from 0 to 255, for a computer or
device on a TCP/IP network
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Java
A simple, platform-independant, object-oriented programming
language for writing
applets
into Internet applications
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LPT1 (LPT2, or LPT3)
First (second, or third) parallel printer port
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MB
Megabyte (equal to 1,024 kilobytes)
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MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol; protocol for transmission of IP
packets between previously configured serial point-to-point links; a
PPP connection is created between a client and a server to allow the
transmission of data
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protocol
Agreed-upon format for transmitting data between systems
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RAM
Random access memory; a computer temporarily stores data in RAM
to increase operating speed; the amount of RAM in a computer determines
how many applications it can run similtaneously
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ROM
Read-only memory
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server
A computer that processes and responds to requests from a
client
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telnet
Process of connecting to a remote computer from from a local
one via modem lines
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URL
Uniform Resource Locator; a World Wide Web address that
contains the protocol to use and the
IP address
or domain name that describes the resource's location
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W3 Consortium
The main standards body for the World Wide Web, the W3
Consortium consists of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the
INRIA (a European computer research organization)
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webmaster
The person responsible for maintenance and development of a
server and its pages on the World WideWeb
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