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| Its primary use is as a human friendly representation of binary coded values | |
| Acronym: American Standard Code for Information Interchange; Consisting of printable and control characters, ASCII is the standard for translating plain text from the human interfa | |
| A wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) | |
| Refers to the Global Positioning System developed by the United States Department of Defense that uses a constellation of between 24 and 32 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that trans | |
| Short for World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium of companies involved with the Internet and the Web. The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original a | |
| A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web | |
| Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and | |
| Acronym: Uniform Resource Locator; A standard for dictating the location of files on the internet; relative to a document or absolute, also defining a protocol | |
| (Uniform Resource Identifier) The addressing technology for identifying resources on the Internet or private intranet. URIs were originally defined as two types: Uniform Resource L | |
| (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with propri | |
| Interface that transmits bits one at a time. | |
| Pronounced at sign or simply as at, this symbol is used in e-mail addressing to separate the user’s name from the user’s domain name, both of which are necessary in order to tr | |
| a server is a computer system that provides services to other computing systems called clients over a network. The term server can refer to hardware (such as a Sun computer system) | |
| A network architecture in which each computer or process on the network is either a client or a server. Servers are powerful computers or processes dedicated to managing disk drive | |
| In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints. In its simplest form | |
| An application service provider (ASP) is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called | |
| A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to c | |
| A blog (a contraction of the term 'Web log') is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such a | |
| A podcast is a series of audio or video digital media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal | |
| Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an ev | |