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| 106. TAG |
A tag is a type of instruction used in
HTML that browsers
interpret when viewing a Web page. A pair of brackets
generally
surrounds tags (<>).
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| 107. Template |
A pattern used to create documents.
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| 108. Text Field |
Generally associated with a form that receives data
entered by
the user. [TOP] |
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| 109. Tiff |
Tagged Image File Format. A graphic
file format for PC and
Macintosh (.tiff). It is compatible with most image editing
software. [TOP] |
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| 110. TITLE BAR |
Located at the top of the browser
window, it displays the title
of the visited page. [TOP] |
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| 111. TLD |
Top Level Domain. The first level
of an Internet site address. [TOP] |
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| 112. TRAFFIC |
A site audience. [TOP] |
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| 113. THUMBNAIL |
A small version of an image, normally
linked to a larger version. [TOP] |
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| 114. TAR |
A file compression format generally
found on UNIX platforms. [TOP] |
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| 115. TCP/IP |
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol). A set of
protocols that make TELNET, FTP, e-mail, and other services
possible among computers that aren't on the same network.
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| 116. TELNET |
A text-based Internet program used for connecting to
a remote
host or server. [TOP] |
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| 117. TILDE (or ~) |
The tilde (~) signifies an individual
user's Web site when
housed on a server. For example, http://www.website.com/~user
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says that user is a website.com user and that his homepage
is on
website.com's server. The tilde character is on the top
line of
your keyboard to the far left. [TOP] |
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| 118. UNIQUE VISITOR |
a site audience unit. A specific visitor
(identified through his IP address) who has visited a
site
during a whole month. [TOP] |
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| 119. UNIX |
An operating system invented
in 1969 at AT&T Bell Laboratories
that was made available to researchers and students
in 1973. It
was used to develop the Internet's communication software
protocols. [TOP] |
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| 120. UPDATES |
This represents a small change to a program. Denoted
as a
change in the right-side digit of a version number (ex:
version
3.0 to 3.1). [TOP] |
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| 121. UPGRADES |
This represents a large change to
a program. Denoted as a
change in the left-side digit of a version number (ex:
version
3.0 to 4.0.). [TOP] |
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| 122. UPLOAD |
To copy a file from your computer to a remote server,
the
reverse process of download. [TOP] |
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| 123. URL |
Uniform Resource Locator -- The standard
way to address a
source of information on the Internet. For example,
http://www.starrsites.com/ points to the Starr Sites
home page, and
http://www.starrsites.com/glossary.htm addresses the
Starr Sites glossary page. [TOP] |
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| 124. USENET |
An Internet-based bulletin board that allows reading
and
posting of "news" in various "newsgroups."
There are thousands
of newsgroups covering a myriad of topics. [TOP] |
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| 125. UUENCODING |
A method for converting binary information
into ASCII text. It
can be used for posting to Usenet and or e-mailing with
non-MIME
compliant mail readers. [TOP] |
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| 126. VIRUS |
A program which replicates itself on computer
systems by incorporating itself into other programs that
are
shared among computer systems. Viruses vary, and can be
harmless
or completely debilitating to a computer system. [TOP] |
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127. XML |
eXtensible Markup Language. A programming
language/specification developed by the W3C. XML is a
pared-down
version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents.
It
enables Web authors and designers to create their own
customized
tags to provide functionality not available with HTML.
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| 128. VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language. An open, extensible,
industry-standard scene description language for 3-D scenes,
or
worlds, on the Internet. With VRML and certain software
tools,
you can create and view distributed, interactive 3-D worlds
that
are rich with text, images, animation, sound, music and
video. [TOP] |
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| 129. WAIS |
Wide Area Information Server. A client-server
information
system that let's users search through databases with
a single
user interface. [TOP] |
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| 130. WAN |
Wide Area Network. A network that connects computers
over a
large geographic area. [TOP] |
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| 131. WAREZ |
Widely used to denote cracked or pirate versions of
commercial
software. In other words, illegal pirated software. [TOP] |
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| 132. WEB HOST |
a company specializing in the hosting
(free or
not) of web sites on their servers. [TOP] |
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| 133. WEB PAGE |
a constituent part of a Web site linked to other
documents or resources by means of hypertext links. [TOP] |
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| 134. WHOIS |
A means of looking up names in a
remote database. Used
initially as an aid for finding e-mail addresses for people
at
large institutions or companies. [TOP] |
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| 135. WILDCARD |
A character string that is used in text searches to
make
finding a match easier. An asterisk (*) usually means
find any
character or set of characters. [TOP] |
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| 136. WINDOWS |
The Microsoft Windows Operating system,
which runs on DOS-based
PCs. [TOP] |
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| 137. WINSOCK |
Windows Sockets. A technical specification that defines
a
standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application
(such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying
TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the
Sockets
applications programming interface model used in Berkeley
UNIX
for communications between programs. [TOP] |
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| 138. WEBSITE |
Web Page - A simple page of information
on the
web. A set of interconnected webpages, usually including
a
homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared
and
maintained as a collection of information by a person,
group, or
organization. [TOP] |
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| 139. ZIP |
A Microsoft Windows based compressed (archive) file.
Can contain one or many files as well as a directory structure.
On the Internet, large graphics and programs are usually
compressed into ZIP files and then made available for
download.
After you download this file you need to use a decompression
software program to "unzip" the file. [TOP] |
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| 140. WORLD WIDE WEB |
Created in 1989 at a research institute
in Switzerland, the Web relies upon the hypertext transport
protocol (http), an Internet standard that specifies how
an
application can locate and acquire resources stored on
another
computer on the Internet. Most Web documents are created
using
hypertext markup language (html), an easy to learn coding
system
for WWW documents. [TOP] |
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