The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
- Cyberspace
A metaphor for describing the non-physical terrain created by computer systems. Unlike real space, though, exploring cyberspace does not require any physical movement other than pressing keys on a keyboard or moving a mouse.
- Download
The transfer of information from the Internet to your computer.
- Upload
The process of transferring information from my computer to another computer through the Internet. Every time you send e-mail to someone you are uploading it.
- GIF
It stands for Graphics Interchange Format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web, CompuServe and many BBSs. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, but because it is limited to 256 colors, it is more effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.
- JPG
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the original name of the committee that wrote the standard. JPG is one of the image file formats supported on the Web. JPG is a lossy compression technique that is designed to compress color and grayscale continuous-tone images.
JPG images support 16 million colors and are best suited for photographs and complex graphics.
- PNG
Short for Portable Network Graphics, and pronounced ping, a new bit-mapped graphics format similar to GIF. In fact, PNG was approved as a standard by the World Wide Web consortium to replace GIF because GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm called LZW. In contrast, PNG is completely patent- and license-free. The most recent versions of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer now support PNG.
- Login
To make a computer system or network recognize you so that you can begin a computer session.
- Mail lists
An email discussion group focused on one or more topics. The Mailing List is made up of members who subscribe that mailing list.
- News group
The name for discussion groups on USENET.- What is Usenet?
A worldwide bulletin board system that can be accessed through the Internet or through many online services. The USENET contains more than 14,000 forums, called newsgroups, that cover every imaginable interest group. It is used daily by millions of people around the world.
- How is USENET different our class Discussion Board?
USENET has a huge contents and a lot of people all over the world are using it.
- What is Usenet?
- Packet switching
The method used to move data around on the Internet. In packet switching, all the data coming out of a machine is broken up into chunks, each chunk has the address of where it came from and where it is going. This enables chunks of data from many different sources to co-mingle on the same lines, and be sorted and directed to different routes by special machines along the way. This way many people can use the same lines at the same time.
- Router
In a network, a device that reads network layer packet headers and receives or forwards each packet accordingly. Routers connect LANs and WANs into internetworks, but must be able to process the network packets for specific types of network protocol. Many routers process various packet types and therefore are termed multiprotocol routers.
- Cookies
The most common meaning of ��Cookie�� on the Internet refers to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests from the Server.
