Wordlist
Wordlist
absolute (URL, reference)
abstract
acceptable use
Add-ons
address
AFS. An abbreviation for (Andrew File System)
algorithm
alias
alpha test
America On-Line
anchor
animation
anonymous ftp
ANSI. (American National Standards Institute)
API. (Application Programming Interface)
AppleSearch
application-independent
AppleScript
Archie
architecture neutral
argc
argv
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Administration; see DARPA)
ASCII
asynchronous
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
attribute
audio player
authentication
authoring software
autoresponder
awk
back end
background
backbone
Bandwidth
Bash (UNIX shell)
Basic (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
BBS. (Bulletin Board System)
beta test
binary
binary executables
BIND. (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)
BITNET. (Because It's Time NETwork)
black box
body
boilerplate
Bookmark
boolean operators
boot
bootstrap loaders
bottleneck
boundary errors
Bourne shell
breakpoints
bridge
Browser
bugs
Bulleted list
C
C++
CALS. (Computer Aided Logistics System)
case sensitive
cd. (Abbreviation for change directory)
CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read-Only Memory)
CERN (Centre Europeen Recherche Nucleaire)
CGI. (Common Gateway Interface)
cgi-parse
character entity
characters added in HTML 3.0
character mode
charset (Abbreviation for character set)
character set
checkbox
CIDR. (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
class
clickable image/clickable map
client
client pull
client/server
close
CNIDR. (The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval)
collaterals
common controls
commercial on-line service
compliant
computing platform
compiler
compression
CompuServe
configuration management system
connection
content model
Content-Type
convention
conversion tools
copyleft
COTS
crawlers
CrLf. (Abbreviation for Carriage return/Line feed)
cron
Csh (UNIX shell)
CSU/DSU. (Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit)
CVS. (Concurrent Version System)
daemon
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration)
data content model
datagram
DBMS. (DataBase Management System)
debugger
dedicated line
de facto
default.htm
delimiter
deprecated
descriptive markup
desktop (aka desktop machine)
development environment
dial-up account
directory path
directory structure
DNS. (Domain Name Service)
document tree
document root
document
document head
document structure
document management system
document-based queries
document annotation
DoD (Department of Defense)
domain names
DOS (Disk Operating System; see also operating system)
DTD (Document Type Definition)
dumb terminal
DVI
editor
electronic commerce
electronic mailbox
element (SGML, HTML)
emacs
e-mail
encoding
encoded information
encryption
end tag
environment variables
error checking
error message
Ethernet
exception handling
external entities
extension language
FAQs. (Frequently Asked Questions)
field
file extension
file compression
file mapping
Fill-in Forms
filtering
finger
Firewall
footer
fork
forms
Formatted Text
FORTRAN. (FORmula TRANslation language)
front end
FTP (sometimes ftp; File Transfer Protocol)
FTP mirror
fuzzy logic
gateway
GET
gif. (also GIF, Graphic Interchange Format)
GNU Tools
Gopher
Graphics
graphical dividers
grep
GUI (Graphical User Interface)
.gz
GZIP
handle (username)
hash table
heading
hexadecimal
hierarchical structure
history list
homepage.html
Home page
host
host system
hotlist
.hqx
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
HTML-on-the-fly
HTML DTD
HTML page layout
HTTP. (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
httpd (HTTP daemon)
hyperlink
hypermedia
hypertext link
hypertext
IAB. (Internet Architecture Board, formerly Internet Activities Board)
IANA. (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
ICA. (Integrated Chameleon Architecture)
ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
imagemap
Index.html
Information Superhighway
Infobahn
input-handling program
instance
Internaut
Internet
international standard
inter-document
interface
interlaced GIF
interpreter
Internet Services
intra-document
IP (Internet Protocol; see TCP/IP)
IP address
IP port address
IRC
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
ISO-8879
ISO (International Standards Organization)
ISO Latin-1
ISP. (Internet Service Provider)
I-way
Java
jpeg. (also JPEG, Joint Photographic Experts Group)
jump
Kbps (Kilobits per second)
keyword
Knowbot
Korn (UNIX shell)
lag
LAN (Local-Area Network)
latency
layout element
library (as applied to programming)
linear structure
linear text
line browser
link
list tags
list element
listserv
load balancing
logical markup
Lynx
Mac/OS
MacWeb
mail server
mailing list
maintenance
majordomo
man page
map file
markup
markup language
Mbps (Megabits per second)
MCC (Microelectronics and Computing Corporation)
message traffic
metalanguage
metacharacter
METHOD
MIF (Maker Interchange Format)
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
minimization
mnemonic
modularity
monospaced
Mosaic
Motif
movie player
MPPP (Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol)
MS-DOS
multimedia
multithreaded
navigation
navigation bar
NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
nesting
net-pointers
Netizens (Citizens or denizens of the Internet).
netiquette
Netscape (the company and the product)
network utilization
network link
network services
newsgroups
NFS (Network File System)
NIC. (Network Interface Card)
NULL
numeric entity
nutshell Handbook
object-oriented (OO)
obsoleted
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
octet-stream
on-demand connection
on-the-fly HTML
OS (Operating System)
overhead
packet
packet switching
padding
Page
pages
paragraphs
parallel interface
parameter
parse tree
path, pathname (see directory path)
pattern-matching
PC (personal computer)
PEM/PGP Encapsulation.
Perl
physical markup
pick list
pipe
pixel (PICture Element)
PKZip
place-holder
plain text
platform-independent
platform
POP (Post Office Protocol)
port address
port. (short for transport, usually used as a verb)
POST
PostScript
POTS (Plain Old Telephone System)
PPP/SLIP
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
problem domain
processor-intensive
procedural markup
Prodigy
production Web
programming language
proprietary
propeller-heads
protocol suite
protocol
provider (see service provider)
ps. (abbreviation for PostScript)
public-key encryption
Python
query decomposition
query string
query language
QuickTime
radio button
RAM (random-access memory)
RCS (Revision Control System)
regex (abbreviation for regular expression)
relative
relational database
remote location
render
replication
repository
request header
request
resource
response time
response
response header
return (short for carriage return)
reusability
rm. (Abbreviation for remove)
robot
ROM (read-only memory)
router
RSA encryption
RTF (Rich Text Format)
runtime variables
scalable
screen
script
SEA (Self Extracting Archive)
Search engines
search tools
search string
security
security encoding
sed
server
service provider
server load
server push
setext
setuid
setup
SGML. (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
shell (see UNIX shell)
shell
Shell account
S-HTTP. (Secure HTTP)
signal to noise
singleton
SIT (Stuff IT archive)
sleep
SLIP (Serial Line Interface Protocol)
SmallTalk
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
snail mail
source code
specific-to-general
specification
spider. (synonyms: robot, wanderer, crawler)
spoof
SQL (Structured Query Language)
standard
standards aware
standards compliant
static content
step-by-step execution
string
style guide
style sheet
sub-elements
superstructure
Surfing
symbolic link
synchronous
syntax
syntax checker
system administrator
system clock
T1
Tag
tar. (Tape ARchival program)
Tcl. (Tool Command Language, pronounced tickle)
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol; see TCP/IP)
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
Tcsh (UNIX shell)
technophobe
Telnet
terminal emulation
test Web
test plan
TeX
text controls
text widget
text/html
text/plain
text-mode
The Net
throughput
thumbnail
tiff (on PC's, tif; Tagged Image File Format)
title
toolset
traffic reports
transparent GIF
transformation
tree
tree structure(d) (see hierarchical structure)
troff
unbuffering
unescape
UNIX
UNIX shell
upper bound
URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
URL-encoded text
URL encoding
URN (Uniform Resource Name)
USENET
USENET hierarchy
user interface
username
USPS. (United States Postal Service)
UUDecoding
UUEncoding
V.* (V.32, V.32bis, V.34, V.42, V.42bis)
valid HTML
VAX/VMS
Veronica
version control
vi
virtual company/corporation
VRML
W3. (abbreviation for World Wide Web)
W3C. (abbreviation for World Wide Web Consortium)
WAIS (Wide-Area Information Service)
wanderer. (synonyms: robot, spider, crawler)
Web
Web pages
Web server
Web site(s)
WebCrawler. (synonyms: robot, spider, crawler)
Webification
Webify (The verb form of Webification; see preceding definition.)
Web mirror
WebMaster
white space
whitespace
widget
Windows (aka MS-Windows)
WinWeb
Worlds Chat
World-Wide Web (aka WWW or W3)
worm
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
Yahoo. (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle)
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