- E-
- The in-vogue suffix for the Internet equivalent of real world entities. Popular
examples are E-commerce, E-book, E-zine (i.e. magazine) and of course
E-mail. Sometimes the hyphen is omitted and sometime the E is lower case.
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- E-business
- Electronic Business is conducting business over the internet, including
communications with customers, suppliers and business partners. Often used
as an alternative to e-commerce.
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- E-commerce
- Electronic Commerce is conducting commerce over the Internet, such as buying
products or services from Web sites. Often used as an alternative to
e-business.
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- Element
- In XML the building blocks of a document. <author>John
Triance</author> is an element. Apart from a bit of red tape at the
beginning, and comments an XML document is made up of a number of elements
nested inside each other.
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- Encryption
- Encoding information before it is transmitted over the Internet so that no one else can
read it except the computer it is sent to.
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- E-mail
- Electronic Mail is a mechanism for sending messages across a computer network.
The text of the message is typed in on one computer and then is sent to someone else on
the network. The recipient of the message reads it on his/her computer and can then delete
the message, file it on the computer, print it, send a reply or forward it to other people
on the network.
Email is standard abbreviation for Electronic Mail. The
software that processes your email is called an email program or an email
reader
You can
also use mailing lists to send a single message to many other users at the same time.
More Details
- Extensible Stylesheet Language
- see XSL
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- Extranet
- An extranet is a private site which is accessed by a
limited group of users over the Internet. Access to Extranet sites is restricted by
password or other means.
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- More details
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- E-zine
- An electronic magazine - in other words a magazine on the Web.
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- FAQs
- Frequently Asked Questions. A set of questions with associated answers which set out to
shed light on a particular subject area.
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- Favorite
- A link to a page that you save because you think you are likely to revisit
it. Netscape Navigator and some other browsers use the term Bookmark for the
same thing.
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- Fire Wall
- A computer system that is used to prevent users on the Internet from getting
unauthorised access to a LAN.
See Also: LAN
- Flame Mail
- Electronic Mail of an angry and often abusive nature. Typically sent to an Internet user
who breaks the rules of one of the Newsgroups, by for example advertising when in a group
that forbids it.
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- Freeware
- Software that is available free of charge. If software is free of charge for a limited
(trial) period it is called shareware.
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- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol. A mechanism for moving files between two machines over the
Internet. An FTP site is a collection of documents, software, etc.
which Internet
users can transfer to their computers using FTP. The term anonymous ftp is used
to refer to sites where no user id or password is needed to access the files. In other
words the users are anonymous. FTP is also commonly used to transfer Web pages from the
Webmaster's machine to the Web Server.
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- More details.
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- Fuzzy Logic
- A technique for matching items that are similar. For example if you are using a search
engine to find pages containing references to Stephen Thomson using fuzzy logic, it might
well return pages that contain Stephen Thompson, Steven Thomson and Steven Thompson
as well.
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- GIF
- Graphic Interchange Format. One of the two standard formats used for image files on the
Internet. The other standard format is JPEG. GIF format is well suited to
diagrams and human created pictures and diagrams. It is also possible to do simple
animations with the Animated GIF format.
See Also: JPEG
- Gigabyte
- 1000 Megabytes, that is 1,000,000,000 bytes. The purists will tell you that it is
actually the binary equivalent which is 1024 x 1024 x 1024!
See Also: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte
- Gopher
- A predecessor of the World Wide Web which has been eclipsed by the latter's arrival. It
works by providing a menu of Hyperlinks that you can select from. This often leads to
another menu which you select from until eventually you reach the document you were
seeking. It is still used widely in academic world.
See Also: WWW
, Hypertext
- Helper Application
- An application that is used to process a file format that the Browser cannot handle.
Typically used for multimedia files and animations. Since there is an overhead in calling
helper applications, plugs-ins are used for the most commonly used formats. Plug-ins
fulfil the same function as helper applications but they are in effect made part of the
browser itself.
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- See also Plug-in
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- History
- The Browser History is a list of all the URLs of the pages you have
recently visited. The main browsers allow you to view the history and click on any URL
to revisit the page. The browsers also allow you to specify how many days of
history you want to keep and to delete the history.
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- See also History of the Internet
- Hit
- A hit count is used as a measure of the popularity of a Web Page. One is
added to the hit count every time anyone reads the page. Some pages publish their hit
counts. The hit count for a Web Site is the sum of all the hit counts for each file that
makes up the Web. This is used to measure the overall popularity of the Web Site and the
load on the Web Server.
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- Home Page
- A home page is the starting point for browsing a set of web pages. Every Web Site has a
home page that is designed to be the first page seen. It typically has links to the
various parts of the Web Site. A Browser also has a home page - the one that is displayed
automatically when you invoke the browser. The leading browsers let you choose your own
home page. So you can ensure that your starting point is your favourite search engine,
directory or the home page of your own Web Site if you have one. The term is also used for
a Web page created by an individual to say who they are and describe their interests, etc
- e.g Jane Smith's home page.
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- Host
- A computer on a network. The term is sometimes used to refer to computers that
offer services to other computers such as running a Web Service or a Database.
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- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language. The language used to create Web pages. It consists of
a set of tags which indicate what action the browser should take when loading and
processing the page. For example the tag <hr> causes a horizontal line
to appear, as follows:
Other examples are tags for incorporating graphics into a web page and for defining
hyperlinks.
- HTTP
- HyperText Transport Protocol. The language that Web Browsers use to communicate with Web
servers. You will no doubt recognise HTTP as a part the address of web sites.
See Also: Protocol, URL
- HyperGlossary
- The one term that I invented to describe the combination of definitions and concepts
that this site provides.
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- Hyperlink
- A hyperlink is part of a web page that provides a link to another part of the
World Wide Web. The words Link and Hypertext link are used
interchangeably with Hyperlink.
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- Hypertext
- Text that contains hyperlinks to other documents. In other words, when the text is
displayed you can click on certain regions of the document and are taken to elsewhere in
the document or to another document. This is the basis of the World Wide Web.
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- See Also Hyperlink
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- Id
- A string of characters that identifies you, typically your name or initials, used
when you are logging on to a computer system.
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- See Also Logon/Login