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Provides the
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Glossary
of Terms Relating to World Wide Web, Internet and Web Hosting etc. |
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A
little effort to provide you a knowledge by NextTrak. |
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This
list is not complete, by any means. If you have any terms that you would
like to see added to this glossary, e-mail your request to info@nexttrak.com |
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I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X |
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Back / Forward |
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Buttons in most browsers' Tool Button Bar, upper left. BACK returns
you to the document previously viewed. FORWARD goes to the next document,
after you go BACK. |
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like the BACK button does not work, check if you are in a new Netscape
window; some Web pages are programmed to open a new window when you
click on some links. Each window has its own short-term search HISTORY.
If this does not work, use GO to select the page you want (some Web
pages are programmed to disable BACK). |
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| Backbone |
| A high-speed
line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a
network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will
likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.
See also Network. |
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Bandwidth |
| How much
stuff you can send / receive through a connection. Usually measured
in bits-per-second (bps.) A full page of English text is about 16,000
bits. A fast modem can move about 57,000 bits in one second. Full-motion
full-screen video would require roughly 10,000,000 bits-per-second,
depending on compression. |
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| Baud |
| In common
usage the baud rate of a modem is how many bits it can send or receive
per second. Technically, baud is the number of times per second that
the carrier signal shifts value - for example a 1200 bit-per-second
modem actually runs at 300 baud, but it moves 4 bits per baud (4 x
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| BBS
(Bulletin Board System) |
| A computerized
meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions,
upload and download files, and make announcements without the people
being connected to the computer at the same time. In the early 1990's
there were many thousands (millions?) of BBS?s around the world, most
are very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone
lines. Some are very large and the line between a BBS and a system
like AOL gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn.
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| Billing
Contact |
| The person
responsible for the payment aspects of a domain registered with us.
All correspondence associated with payments in relation to the domain
will be sent to the Billing Contact e-mail address. |
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| Binary |
| Information
consisting entirely of ones (1) and zeros (0). Also, commonly used
to refer to files that are not simply text files, e.g. images etc. |
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Binhex (BINary HEXadecimal) |
| A method
for converting non-text files (non-ASCII) into ASCII. This is needed
because Internet e-mail can only handle ASCII. |
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