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K

• KEIRETSU - In corporate culture, keiretsu refers to a uniquely Japanese form of corporate organization. The keiretsu system is based on an intimate partnership between government and businesses. It can best be understood as the intricate web of relationships that links banks, manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors with the Japanese government.
• KEYWORD(S) - A word searched for in a search command. Keywords are searched in any order. Use spaces to separate keywords in simple keyword searching.
• KILOBYTE - A kilobyte (pronounced KEE-lo-bite) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a thousand bytes. A kilobyte is two to the 10th power, or 1,024 in decimal notation.

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L

• LAN - LOCAL AREA NETWORK, A computer network that spans a relative small area. Most connect work stations and personal computers. Each computer has its own CPU with which it executes the program but it is also able to access data and devices anywhere on the Network.. Great for sharing printers, files, And storing programs to one CPU as compared to 5 or 6.
  
• LINK - A connection between two HTML documents. IE: what happens when you click on an image or highlighted text in a web page.
  
• LINUX - A widely used OPEN SOURCE UNIX like operating system. The inner workings of LINUX are open and available to anyone to examine and change as long as they make their changes available to the public.

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M

• MAIL FILTER - A program that allows the user to sort email messages according to information contained in the header.
  
• MAILBOT - An email server that automatically responds to requests for information.
  
• MAILING LIST - A discussion forum where a user subscribes to receive information by email.
  
• MARKUP - Markup refers to the sequence of characters or other symbols that you insert at certain places in a text or word processing file to indicate how the file should look when it is printed or displayed or to describe the document's logical structure. There is now a standard markup definition for document structure (or really a description of how you can define markup) in the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
• MEGABYTE - Used to describe disk storage capacity and transmission rates, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in decimal notation.
• META DATA - Metadata is a definition or description of data and metalanguage is a definition or description of language.
  META TAGS -The coding on the back end of your website that allows the search engines to locate you. Including Titles, Keywords, and Description. Also content is important in this area on the actual web page to support the tags.
  
• MIME -MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an extension of the original Internet e-mail protocol that lets people use the protocol to exchange different kinds of data files on the Internet: audio, video, images, application programs, and other kinds, as well as the ASCII text handled in the original protocol, the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP).
  
• MIRROR - To maintain an exact copy of something. Web site or FTP sites that maintain copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource.
  
• MODEM -A device that connects a computer to a phone line. A telephone for a computer allowing computer to speak to each other over the phone line.
  
• MOZILLA - Mozilla was Netscape Communication's nickname for Navigator, its Web browser, and, more recently, the name of an open source public collaboration aimed at making improvements to Navigator.
• MULIT-MEDIA -Means more than one of the following media devices being used at one time. Animation, Sound, Video, 3-D, and or Virtual Reality.
  
• MySQL - A relational database management system famous for being OPEN SOURCE, usually free and highly efficient. Essentially a database is defined as an organized collection of data. The DBMS sits "on top of" this data providing and interface between the database and the user.

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N

• NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) is a Windows specification for how communication protocol programs (such as TCP/IP) and network device driver should communicate with each other.
• NETIQUETTE - The etiquettes on the internet.
  
• NETWORK -Any time 2 or more computers are connected together to share resources.
  
• NIC - Network Information Center- An office that handles information for a network.
• NYM - A nym (pronounced NIHM and a shortened form of "pseudonym,") is a name invented by or provided for an Internet user in order to conceal the user's real identity and, in some cases, to expressly create a new and separate Internet identity.

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O

• ONLINE MARKETING - Real world marketing on the WWW. Strategies and concepts that have proven to be of success to be SEEN on the Net.
  
• ONLINE RESEARCH - Services to research information in your industry to better meet your needs on the Net.
  
• OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE - Software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes.
  
• ORACLE -Another relational database management system famous for being very good with many add-ons and a long internet history.

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P

• PDF - PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else.
• PERL -A scripting language that borders functionality on being a programming language famous for being portable, and reliable. It is probably the most common language for CGI. It is OPEN SOURCE
  
• PHP -Hypertext Processor is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.
  
• PING - Ping is a basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests.
• PING OF DEATH - On the Internet, ping of death is a denial of service (DoS) attack caused by an attacker deliberately sending an IP packet larger than the 65,536 bytes allowed by the IP protocol.
• PLATFORM -The type of computer or operating system on which a software application runs.
  
• PLUG-IN - A downloadable program that attaches to your browser to allow the use of certain multi media.
  
• POP -Post Office Protocol- Refers to the way an email client gets email from a server. When you sign up for an email account from your ISP you get a POP account with in it.
  
• PORTAL - Used as a marketing term to describe a web site that is or is intended to be the first place people see when using the Web. Typically a "Portal Site" has a catalog of web sites, a search engine or both. A portal site may also offer email to entice a user to use that site as their MAIN POINT OF ENRTY to the WWW.
  
• PREFERNCE SETTING -A set of parameters on software tools, especially WWW BROWSERS, that allow the user to attach a signature file to email or newsgroup messages, change the color and the appearance of text etc.
  
• PROTOCOL - A specification that describes how computers will talk to each other on a network.
  
• PROXY SERVER - Sits in between the client and the Real server that a client is trying to use. Client's are sometimes configured to use a proxy server usually as an HTTP server. The client makes all its requests form the proxy server which then makes a request form the real server and passes the result back to the client. Commonly established on LAN.
  
• PROFESSIONAL COPY EDITING AND CONTENT DEVELOPMENT -Development of content for your web site and editing of your material to meet WWW standards.

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Q

• QUICK TIME-Apple computer's entry in the video format arena.
• QXGA - (Quantum Extended Graphics Array) is a display mode in which the resolution is 2048 pixels horizontally by 1536 pixels vertically (2048 x 1536). This results in 3,145,728 pixels in the image (sometimes referred to as 3.2 million pixels).
• QUEUE - In general, a queue is a line of people or things waiting to be handled, usually in sequential order starting at the beginning or top of the line or sequence. In computer technology, a queue is a sequence of work objects that are waiting to be processed.

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R

• REAL TIME CHAT - This is one use of that internet that allows live conversation between by typing on a computer terminal. The most common are Talk and Instant Messaging.
  
• REDIRECTION - On a Web site, redirection is a technique for moving visitors to a Web page when its address has been changed and visitors are familiar with the old address. Web users often encounter redirection when they visit the Web site of a company whose name has been changed or which has been acquired by another company.
• ROUTER -Hardware or software that connects a local network to the Internet. Routers spend all their time looking at the destination address of the packets passing though them and deciding which route to send them on.
• RDRAM - (Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory) is a memory subsystem that promises to transfer up to 1.6 billion bytes per second. The subsystem consists of the random access memory (RAM), the RAM controller, and the bus (path) connecting RAM to the microprocessor and devices in the computer that use it.
• RAS - In computer memory technology, RAS (row address strobe) is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a row address.
• RDBMS - A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. An RDBMS takes Structured Query Language (SQL) statements entered by a user or contained in an application program and creates, updates, or provides access to the database.

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S

• SDSL-(Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line) A version of DSL where upload and downloads speeds are the same.
  
• SGML - SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is a standard for how to specify a document markup language or tag set. Such a specification is itself a document type definition (DTD). SGML is not in itself a document language, but a description of how to specify one. It is metadata.
• SEARCH ENGINE-A service that will search the entire WWW according to your search request. Like YAHOO and MSN
  
• SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION -Getting your website search engine friendly as to be received and submit as requested by the search engines protocol.
  
• SERVER - A computer or a software package that provides a specific kind of service to a client software running on other computers. Can refer to software on the WWW or a specific machine for where the software is running.
  
• SERVER CO-LOCATION -an address for your website.
  
• SESSION TRACKING -Ability to track who is coming to your site and from where and how long.
• SITE MAP - A site map is a visual or textually organized model of a Web site's content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for, just as a traditional geographical map helps people find places they are looking for in the real world. A site map is a kind of interactive table of contents, in which each listed item links directly to its counterpart sections of the Web site. Site maps perform the same service that the layout maps in large shopping malls perform so if you have a large site, a site map can be very useful to your site visitors.
• SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange.
• SMDS -(Switched Multimegabit Data Service- A standard for a very high speed data transfer.
  
• SNAIL MAIL -Mail sent via the US post office as opposed through the internet.
  
• SPAM -An inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list or USENET or other networked communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium, by sending the same message to a large of people who didn't ask for it.
  
• SQL - (Structured Query Language) is a standard interactive and programming language for getting information from and updating a database.
  
• STREAMING -Data streaming, commonly used in the terms "audio streaming" or "video Streaming" is when data moves from one computer to another and doesn't have to be completely downloaded for the receiving computer to do something with it.
  
• SSL -(Secure Sockets Layer)- A standard for encrypted transmissions of the web. A protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting documents via the internet. SSL works by using a public key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer support SSL and many web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URL's that require an SSL connection usually start with HTTPS: instead of HTTP:
  
• SYSOP -System Operator- Anyone responsible for the physical operations of a computer system or network resource.

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T

• TAG - A tag is a generic term for a language element descriptor.
• TCP/IP -(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)-This is the suiteof protocols that defines the Internet. Originally designed for the UNIX operating system. TCP/IP is now included in every major kind of computer operating system. To be truly on the internet you must have TCP/IP software.
  
• T1 - A leased line connection capable of carrying data at 1,544,000 bits per second. Commonly used to connect large LAN's to the Internet.
  
• T3 -A leased line connection capable of carrying data at 44,736,000 bits per second. This is more than enough to do full screen, full motion video.
  
• TELNET -The command and program used to login from one internet site to another.
  
• TERMINAL -A device that allows you to send commands to a computer somewhere else. At minimum this means a keyboard and a display screen and some simple circuitry.
  
• TERMINAL SERVER - A special purpose computer that has places to plug in many modems on one side and connection to a LAN or Host machine on the other side. Thus the terminal does that work of answering the calls and passed the connections on to the a appropriate work station.
  
• TEXT BASED BROWSER -A browser that cannot handle hypermedia files.

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U

• URI - (Uniform Resource Identifier) As address for a S resource on the internet.
  
• URL - (Uniform Resource Locator) This is the actual address of your web page including the server you are using.
  
• URN - ( Uniform Resource Name) A URI that is supposed to be available for a long time.
  
• USENET - A worldwide system for discussion groups, with comments passed along hundreds of thousands of machines.
  
• UUENCODE -( UNIX to UNIX Encoding)- A method for converting files from Binary to ASCII (text)so that they can be sent across the internet via email.

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V

• VECTOR BASED GRAPHICS - Vector graphics is the creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. In physics, a vector is a representation of both a quantity and a direction at the same time. In vector graphics, the file that results from a graphic artist's work is created and saved as a sequence of vector statements. For example, instead of containing a bit in the file for each bit of a line drawing, a vector graphic file describes a series of points to be connected.
• VISUAL BASIC - Visual Basic (VB) is a programming environment from Microsoft in which a programmer uses a graphical user interface to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language.
• VRRP - Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, is an Internet protocol that provides a way to have one or more backup routers when using a statically configured router on a local area network (LAN).
• VPN - Virtual Private Network, Usually refers to a network in which some of the parts are connected using the public internet, but the data sent across the internet is encrypted. So the entire network is Virtually private.

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W

• W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• WAP - WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a specification for a set of communication protocols to standardize the way that wireless devices, such as cellular telephones and radio transceivers, can be used for Internet access, including e-mail, the World Wide Web, newsgroups, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
• WEB HOSTING - Access to data through modem or network.
  
• WEBMASTER - The person responsible for administering a web site.
  
• WEB PAGE - A text document made up of HTML tags that may contain links, graphics, downloadable files, other web pages, audio, and or video sources.
  
• WEB PRESENCE - Your accessibility and availability on the NET. Your ability to be found easily by viewers.
  
• WEB SITE - A Web site is a related collection of World Wide Web files that includes a beginning file called a home page. A company or an individual tells you how to get to their Web site by giving you the address of their home page. From the home page, you can get to all the other pages on their site.
• WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT/MANAGEMENT - The ability to take your visions and implement them into a viable reality.
• WML - (Wireless Markup Language), formerly called HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Languages), is a language that allows the text portions of Web pages to be presented on cellular telephones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) via wireless access. WML is part of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) that is being proposed by several vendors to standards bodies.
• WYSIWYG - (pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") editor or program is one that allows an interface or content developer to create a graphical user interface (GUI) or page of text so that the developer can see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created. WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".

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X

• XSP - xSP is a generic term for any kind of service provider on the Internet. The two main kinds of service provider are the Internet service provider (ISP), which provides users with connection to the Internet and sometimes offers hosting and other services, and the application service provider (ASP), which provides remote access to one or more computer applications.
• XML - XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere.
• XSD - (XML Schema Definition), a Recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), specifies how to formally describe the elements in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.
• XSL - XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), formerly called Extensible Style Language, is a language for creating a style sheet that describes how data sent over the Web using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is to be presented to the user.
• XHTML - A hybrid between HTML and XML specifically designed for Net device displays, ensures that layout and presentation stay true to form over any platform.

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Y

• Y2K - The year 2000 (also known as "Y2K") raised questions for anyone who depended on a program in which the year was represented by a two-digit number, such as "97" for 1997. Many programs written years ago (when storage limitations encouraged such information economies) are still being used. The problem was that when the two-digit space allocated for "99" rolled over to 2000, the next number was "00." Frequently, program logic assumes that the year number gets larger, not smaller - so "00" was anticipated to wreak havoc in a program that hadn't been modified to account for the millennium.

• ZOMBIE - On the World Wide Web, a zombie is an abandoned and sadly out-of-date Web site that for some reason has been moved to another Web address. It's a ghost site that appears to have moved.
• ZIP DRIVE - A Zip drive is a small, portable disk drive used primarily for backing up and archiving personal computer files.

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OTHER

• 404 ERROR - is a frequently-seen status code that tells a Web user that a requested page is "Not found." 404 and other status codes are part of the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
• 80 - If you occasionally see a mysterious "80" on the name of a Web server that is handling your request for Web pages, this is a bit of technical stuff showing through when perhaps it shouldn't. A Web server sits and waits for requests from clients (such as your Web browser). Most Web servers are set up to "awaken" and respond to requests from clients whose Uniform Resource Locator (URL) requests include "port 80" as part of their information. When you see the "80" showing up in the server address at the bottom of your screen, all it means is that the server uses the usual default port number. (You don't usually see this because some servers can be set up so that this number is not visible to the browser user.)
• 121 - In Internet e-commerce, 121 is short for one-to-one, the philosophy that treating each customer as a special individual is a more successful approach than treating customers as a group of similar individuals.

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