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Provides the
track of your sucess. |
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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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Bit (Binary DigIT) |
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A single digit number in base-2, in other words, either a 1 or a zero.
The smallest unit of computerized data or the smallest unit to measure
the storage capacity. A combination of 4 bits is a Nibble while of
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BITNET (Because It's Time NETwork (or Because It's There NETwork))
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| A network
of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely
exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs®, a popular
form of e-mail discussion groups, originated on BITNET. At its peak
(the late 1980's and early 1990's) BITNET machines were usually mainframes,
often running IBM's MVS operating system. BITNET is probably the only
international network that is shrinking. |
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Blog (weB LOG) |
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(short for "web log") is a type of web page that serves
as a publicly accessible personal journal (or log) for an individual.
Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the
author. Blog software usually has archives of old blogs, and is searchable.
Frequently blogging software is used by web pages providing excellent
information on many topics, although very frequently the content is
personal and requires very careful evaluation. |
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basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of
updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog
is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using
software that allows people with little or no technical background
to update and maintain the blog. |
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on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the
most recent additions featured most prominently. It is common for
blogs to be available as RSS feeds. |
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| Blogosphere
or Blogsphere |
| The current
state of all information available on blogs and/or the sub-culture
of those who create and use blogs. |
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| BOOKMARK
/ FAVORITES |
| Way in
Netscape to store in your computer direct links to sites you wish
to return to. The equivalent in Internet Explorer (IE) is called a
"Favorite." To create a bookmark in Netscape, click on BOOKMARKS,
then ADD BOOKMARK. Or left-click on and drag the little bookmark icon
(in Netscape 4.6 and higher, to the right of the word BOOKMARK) to
the place you want a new bookmark filed. To visit a bookmarked site,
click on BOOKMARKS and select the site from the list. |
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in Internet Explorer to Netscape's Bookmarks is called "Favorites."
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download a bookmark file to diskette and install it on another computer.
To do this in Netscape, select BOOKMARKS, then EDIT BOOKMARKS, then,
in the FILE menu, select SAVE AS. To do this in IE, select from the
main browser tool bar FILE, then Import and Export... and follow directions
for exporting to a file. Import (part of the same IE program) allows
you to bring a Netscape Bookmark file into IE as Favorites. |
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