Index
Of Internet Terms
- A -
Acceptable Use Policy
| access number | ACK | Active X | address | address book | AFK
| agent | AI | alt |
AltaVista | America Online
| anonymous FTP | API
| applet | application | Application Program Interface | Archie | archive site | ARPANET | artificial intelligence |
ASCII | attached file | AUP | authentication
- B -
backbone | bandwidth
| bang | barfmail | BASIC
| baud | BBS | bcc: | beta | bible | binary | bit | BITNET | bookmark |
boot | bounce | bounce message | box | bozo filter | bps | browser | browser war | BTW | bug | bulletin board system |
byte
- C -
C | C++ | cascade
| cc: | CD | Central Processing Unit
| CGI | chat
| chat history | chatter's block
| checksum |
churn | churning | client
| client-server model | clipboard | collision detection | commercial online service | Common Gateway Interface | compile
| compression | Compuserve | computer literacy
| congestion | connection | cookies | coopetition
| copy protection | CPU | cracker |
crossload | cross-posting
| crunch | CU-SeeMe | cube | cyberpunk
| cyberspace - D -
daemon | data encryption key
| Data Encryption Standard
| database | dedicated line
| delivery receipt | delurk
| DES | dial-up | digerati | DNS
| domain name | Domain Name System
| domainism | DOS
| download | download charges
| drag | dump
- E -
ecash | eform |
Electronic Frontier Foundation
| email | email address
| email never-neverland | email overload
| emoticon | encryption
| Ethernet | Excite
| execute | eyeballs
- F -
facilitated chat | FAQ
| FidoNet | file compression
| file transfer | File Transfer Protocol | finger
| firewall | flame
| flame bait | flame on/flame off
| flame war | flash session
| flat-file | font
| forum | forwarding | frame
| freenet | freeware
| fried |
FTP | FUD
| FWIW | FYI
- G -
garbage | Get a real computer! | GIF | GIGO
| glitch | Golden Rule of Netiquette
| Gopher | go word
| Graphics Interchange Format
| grep | GUI
| guru - H -
hacker | handle | hang | hardwired | Hello World!
| hit | holy wars
| home page | hosed
| host | HotBot
| HTML | HTTP |
hype | hyperlink
| hypertext | Hypertext Markup Language
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- I -
icon | iconographer
| identity hacking | IMHO
| inbox | infobahn | information superhighway | Infoseek
| install |
Integrated Services Digital Network
| Internet | Internet Explorer
| Internet Relay Chat
| Internet Service Provider
| Internet Society | InterNIC | interoperability
| intranet | IP address
| IRC | ISDN
| ISOC | ISP
- J -
jack in | Java
| JavaScript | Joint Photographic Experts Group
| JPEG - K -
Kermit | kill file
| kluge | knowbie
| knowbot - L -
LAN | leased line | line noise | link | list server | Local Area Network | LOL | loop
| lurk - M -
machine | machine language
| mailbomb | mailing list
| mainframe | matrix
| Mbone | meltdown
| menu | message header
| MIME | mirror site
| mission critical | modem
| modem mantra | moderator
| mods | moof | MorF?
| Mosaic |
MUD | Multi-User Dungeon | Multicast Backbone
| Multimedia Gulch |
multiplexor | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
| multitasking - N -
nanosecond | nastygram
| Navigator | NDA
| Netiquette | netlag
| netnews | network
| net.god | net lingo
| net.police |
net surfing | newbie
| newsgroup | Non-Disclosure Agreement
| NSFnet | nuke
- O -
objects | Object Oriented Programming | offline | online | OOP
| operating system | orthogonal | outbox
- P -
packet | packet sniffing
| parse | password
| path | PC
| Perl | personal computer
| PGP | PING
| plug-ins | Point of Presence
| Point-to-Point Protocol
| POP | post
| postmaster | power newbie
| PPP | Pretty Good Privacy | Prodigy
| program | programming language | protocol
- Q -
query | queue
- R -
RAM | random access memory | README file | read receipts | Real Soon Now
| recursive | refresh | remote login |
render | response time | RFC
| Rich Text Format | root | root directory | ROTFL
| router | RSN | RTF | RTFM
- S -
scroll bar | scrolling
| search engine | security | SeniorNet | Serial Line Internet Protocol
| server | shareware |
shouting | shovelware
| SIG | sig
| Silicon Alley | Silicon Valley
| SLIP | smiley | SNA
| snail mail | sneakernet
| SoHo | spam
| spool | sprayer | stage directions | status bar | subroutine
| subscribe | surf | surge protector | sysadmin
| sysop | Systems Network Architecture
- T -
T1 | T3
| TCP/IP | telecommunications
| telecommuting | teledildonics
| telnet | text box
| thrash | thread
| tile | title bar | toggle
| token ring | toolbar
| TOSsed out | traffic
| triple-dub | Trojan horse
| tweak
- U -
Unicode | Uniform Resource Locator
| UNIX | upload
| urban legend | URL
| USENET | user
| user ID | utility
| UUCP |
uuencode - V -
virtual | Virtual Reality Markup Language
| virus | VRML
- W -
WAIS | wannabee
| webliography | webmaster
| wetware | whois
| Wide Area
Network | window | Windows
| Wintel |
wired | wizard | wizzywig | World Wide Web | worm | WRT |
WWW | WYSIWYG
- X - - Y -
Yahoo | YMMV
- Z - |
