| a | anchor - used for links |
| b | bold |
| i | italic |
| blink | blinking text |
| BGCOLOR | changes the background color |
| font | used to change the font size or color |
| IMG | references an image file |
| OTHER Words you might see while working on this stuff |
| ARPA
| Advanced Research Projects Agency - government agency responsible for the beginnings of the Internet
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| ASCII
| American Standart Code for Information Interchange - plain text format
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| backbone
| the direct optic wiring of the network on a site
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| bandwidth
| refers to the amount of information that can flow through a specific location at at any given time
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| BBS
| Bulletin Board System
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| Binary
| any file that is in a non-text data (kind-of)
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| browser
| client program that displays WWW documents
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| CGI
| Common Gateway Interface
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| client
| program or computer that requests information from the server
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| daemons
| small program in Unix that check for activity
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| domain name system
| system that enables us to refer to sunbird.usd.edu instead of 192.256.44.152
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| download
| retrieve a file from a host machine
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| FAQ
| Frequently Asked Questions
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| Finger
| Unix program that checks on status of a user
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| firewall
| security system that prevents non-authorized people from entering or exiting
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| flame
| a negative response to a previous message (usually newsgroups or
listserv) |
| freeware
| free to use, distribute, cannot modify - author retains copyright
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| FTP
| File Transfer Protocol
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| FYI
| For Your Information
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| GIF
| Graphics Interchange Format (picture format)
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| Gopher
| text retrieval system (still working - predecessor of WWW)
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| home page
| usually the main file (or starting point) on someone's WWW site
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| HTML
| HyperText Markup Language
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| HTTP
| HyperText Transport Protocol
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| hypertext
| non-linear writing where you can click to explore
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| IBM
| International Business Machines
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| IMHO
| In My Humble Opinion
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| IP
| Internet Protocol
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| IP number
| four-part number separated with periods 255.255.255.255
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| JPEG
| Joint Photographic Experts Group (picture format)
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| LAN
| Local Area Network
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| mail bombing
| sending many, many letters to an individual to disrupt service
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| mailing list
| group of people all receiving messages sent to the group
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| MIME
| Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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| mirror site
| duplicate site (same file) to reduce activity on server
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| MPEG
| Motion Picture Experts Group (movie)
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| NCSA
| National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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| NNTP
| Net News Transport Protocol - news server (news.usd.edu)
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| PERL
| Practical Extraction and Report Language.0.
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| pixels
| number of dots on the screen (typical screen approximately
640-480)
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| PPP
| Point-to-Point Protocol
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| protocol
| language computers use to communicate with computers
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| public domain
| free to use, distribute, modify
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| root directory
| top directory of a filing system
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| SGML
| Standard Generalized Markup Language
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| shareware
| free to use, distribute, if you keep it send $ to author
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| SMTP
| Simple Mail Transport Protocol - (sunflowr.usd.edu)
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| snail mail
| the old days of paper mail and the US Postal Service
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| TCP
| Tranmission Control Protocol
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| TCP/IP
| combination of TCP and IP
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| Telnet
| terminal emulation protocol - used to login to Charlie/Sunbird
etc.
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| URL
| Uniform Resource Locator
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| WAN
| Wide Area Network
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| WWW
| World Wide Web
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| WYSIWYG
| What You See Is What You Get
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