Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms - Permission is granted to use this glossary, with credit to Matisse Enzer, for non-commercial educational purposes, provided that the
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Anonymous FTP, these Internet sites let you access their data without registering or payee a fee.

Archie, a search tool that helps you locate information stored at hundreds of anonymous FTP sites around the Internet.

baud, a unit of transmission speed. The greater the baud rate, the faster data moves from point to point.

browser, a software program that lets you explore the Internet.

BBS, bulletin board system, lets people post messages and read othersÌ messages.

DNS, domain name systems, the scheme used to define individual Internet hosts.

domain, the last part of an e-mail address describing the kind of user at the address.

E-mail, electronic mail sent and received by computers.

FTP, File Transfer Protocol, a program that lets you transfer data from an Internet server to your computer.

GOPHER, a system that uses menus and special software on host computers so that you can more easily navigate around the Internet.

Home Page, the first screens or welcome center of a Web site.

html, Hyper Text Markup Language, the language used to create a page for the World Wide Web.

http, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, the way the world wide web pages are transferred over the Web.

hypertext, words at a web site that appear underlined or in colour. By clicking on these words, you go to to another page or Web site where related information is found.

Internet, an interconnection of thousands of separate networks worldwide.

IP, internet protocol, language used by computers to talk to each other.

ISDN, the integrated services digital network defines a new technology that delivers both voice and digital network services over one wire.

ISP, internet service provider, companies that you pay so that you can use their servers to access the Internet.

Jughead, a program that helps you search Gopherspace. It will locate main items on only one or a selected few servers.

Listserv; Listserver, an electronic mailing list used to deliver messages directly to the e-mail addresses of people interested in a particular topic.

MacTCP, an extension that enables your Macintosh to connect to the Internet.

modem, a piece of electronics that translates what you type and create on your computer into a signal that can be sent through a phone line and recreated by another modem on the other end.

Mosaic, graphical browser application that lets you access the Internet World Wide Web.

netiquette, correct manners and behavior on the Internet.

Netscape, a graphical browser application program that lets you access the Internet World Wide web.

Network - several computers that are linked and can talk to each other.

newsgroup, a bulletin board system on the Internet thatÌs organized by topic.

POP, point of presence, (or post office protocol ) method of connecting to an Internet service locally.

PPP, point to point protocol, an alternative to SLIP for dial-in access to the Internet.

protocol, a system of standards that lets computers interact with each other.

search engine, a computer program that finds something on the Internet for you.

server, a host computer.

SLIP, serial line internet protocol, a way to directly connect to the Internet. Your computer is actually on the Internet.

TCP/IP, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of communication standards that specify how data is transferred among computers on the Internet.

Telnet, software that lets users log on to computers connected to the Internet.

UNIX, software operating system that provides the underlying intelligence to Internet servers.

URL, uniform resource locator, an address for a site on the web.

USENET, user network, an array of computer discussion groups, or forums, that can be visited by anyone with Internet access.

Veronica, program that lets you explore GopherSpace.

Web site, a place on the World Wide Web where information, pictures, and other data are available to anyone on the Internet.

WWW, world wide web, is a hypertext-based collection of computers on the Internet that lets you travel from one linked document to another, even if those documents reside on many different servers.