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Computer networking technologies (CNTs): The various tools being developed for
electronic dissemination of information.
Domain: A method of identifying computer addresses on the Internet.
Typically the name of an institution or entity followed by a "dot" and
an abbreviation, e.g., "gov" for governments, "edu" for educational
institutions, "com" for companies, "net" for networks or "org" for
organizations.
Electronic conference or bulletin board: A collection of messages
related to a particular topic.
Electronic mailing list (also called Listserv): A list of E-mail
addresses of people who regularly communicate with each other. You can
subscribe to receive messages automatically by sending a request via
electronic mail to a specified address.
E-mail: Short for "electronic mail", it's like a letter, a message
that one person can send and have received almost instantaneously by
someone anywhere in the world via computers and modems using telephone
lines.
Gopher: A menu system that organizes and provides easy access to
information available on the Internet. The gopher can help you locate
information, download files and search databases.
Home page: A Web screen that acts as a starting point. A user can go
from a home page to multiple sites across the world's computer
networks.
HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol): The Internet standard that enables
information to be distributed across the Web using hypertext markup
language (HTML) to upload information.
Internet (The Net): A global network of computers that makes it
possible to share information electronically. It offers both one-way
communication and "virtual" interactive communication. It allows
networking, conferencing, commercial transactions, shopping, banking
and publishing. The most popular uses of the Net are E-mail and the
World Wide Web (WWW).
Modem: Either an internal or external attachment to your computer that
allows you to transmit or receive data through your phone lines. The
name is short for modulator-demodulator.
Newsgroup: a single forum for discussion on Usernet. A newsgroup's
name denotes the appropriate topic of conversation in that newsgroup.
For instance, "comp.sys.mac.comm" is for discussion of communications
on the Macintosh computer system; "sci.physics.research" is for
discussion of research in physics. The contents of a newsgroup consist
of postings -- individual messages, submitted from anywhere on the
Internet.
On line: On or actively connected to a computer network.
Logging on: Connecting to a computer network.
URL (Universal Resource Locators): On the World Wide Web, a URL can be
thought of as a road map for accessing a specific resource, such as a Web page
or gopher site. URLs express the type of resource to be accessed, the
specific site where the information is stored and where at the site the
information is located. Many URLs begin with the characters
http://, gopher://, or ftp://.
Web browser: Enables users of the Internet to discover, retrieve and display
documents and data available on the WWW. Web browsers allow the user to view
selectively hypertext documents, access powerful text-searching tools, listen
to sound files, and view graphics, animation and video across the Internet.
World Wide Web (WWW): Originally a project developed by CERN (European
Laboratory for Particle Physics) for sharing information within
internationally dispersed teams over computer networks. It allows text and
graphics to be shared with anyone else on the network. The WWW is one of the
fastest growing areas in the field of computer-mediated communications. It is
estimated that there are over 400,000 Web sites.
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