Internet Terms You Should Know About
TCP/IP
PPP - ISP - DNS - Whois
FTP - TELNET
Baud Rates and ISDN
Ethernet - 10BaseT
EMAIL - POP - HQX - UUENCODE - MIME
HTTP - HTML - WWW - URL - CGI - ACGI
Gopher - WAIS and other Search Engines
Glossary of Internet Terms
Listings below are a short explaination or definition.
If the heading is linked, a more complete explaination is available there.
TCP/IP - Tranport Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
Baud Rates
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ISDN
ISP - Internet Service Provider
DNS - Domain Name System or Server
The DNS is a system or server that each IP within a domain uses to resolve IP address alias against to locate another computer on the network.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
TELNET
Ethernet
10BaseT
EMAIL
POP - Post-Office Protocol
HQX - UUENCODE - MIME
Binhex
UUEncode
MIME
HTTP - HTML - WWW - URL - CGI - ACGI
HTTP - HyperText Transport Protocol
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
WWW - World Wide Web
URL - Uniform Resouce Locator
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
ACGI - Asynchronous Common Gateway Interface
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Gopher
,
WAIS
and other
Search Engines
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