i hate talking to long and not important words... so let's go...
here's some words you can found about internet and the meaning of it...
AAA
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. The name used by Cisco for the primary services required by a NAS product.
ACAP
Application Configuration Access Protocol, a standard for accessing program configuration information from a remote server, allowing a user to use and change their configuration from any workstation by reading or writing the values on a central server. Defined in RFC 2244.
ActiveX
Microsoft's own take on live web content, ActiveX is propietary system for embedding controls and the underlying code into any OLE application, most commonly a web browser.
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AFS
Acronym for the Andrew File System. A distributed filesystem standard for Unix and Windows NT. Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port, a standard for 3d graphics designed by Intel for their LX chipset motherboards in response to inroads in their market dominance by clone manufacturers.
ANI
Acronym for Automatic Number Identification, a system similar to Caller-ID, used by the telephone company and some classes of subscriber for identifying the caller. Unlike Caller-ID, ANI delivery is not blocked by * (star) codes. (suess)
ANSI
American National Standards Institute A private, nonprofit organization operating in the public interest to coordinate U.S. standards. Also, a common terminal control protocol for BBS communications.
API
Application Programming Interface, a set of public (visible to other programs) function calls allowing communication between programs, or between a program and the kernel.
AppleTalk
A Macintosh-specific network protocol for sharing resources (files, printers, etc). Appletalk can use special hardware or run on ethernet.
ARA
Apple Remote Access, a protocol allowing network access from Macintosh systems via dialup. Now almost entirely obsolete.
Archie
A system for searching FTP site listings, it is available as a Unix command and via telnet.
See also Veronica.
Archive
'är-"KIv A single large file from which many smaller files can be extracted, Archive files are often compressed. Generally they are used to make it easier to transfer large programs and sets of files. Common archive formats include ARJ, TAR, ZIP, and ZOO.
ARJ
A popular archive program available for MS-DOS and other computers.
See Also: TAR, ZIP, and ZOO.
ARP
Acronym for Address Resolution Protocol, a protocol for translating between IP addresses and MAC-layer addresses in an ethernet. Defined in RFC 826.
See Also: BOOTP, DHCP, and RARP.
ArpaNet
Acronym for Advanced Research Project Administration NETwork. A US Department of Defense project designed as a redudant WAN capable of surviving a nuclear war. Precursor of the Internet
AS
Autonomous System, a unique number identifying an Internet-connected network that has routing policies distinct from their upstream connection(s). Used in the BGP routing protocol.
ASCII
Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which specifies the standard 7-bit character set.
ASPI
Advanced SCSI programming Interface. The software interface between operating system's device drivers and a SCSI host adapter.
Asynchronous
A method of data transfer in which the device cannot proceed to the next block of data until it has received positive acknowledgment that the other device received the block correctly. See Also: synchronous
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode. The ITU standard for a cell-relay based communications system encompassing voice, data and video traffic. ATM provides standards for 25Mbps and 155Mbps transmission speeds.
AUI
Attachment Unit Interface, the standard ethernet interface between the NIC and a 10-base5 network.
Authentication
Any system by which a system attempts to validate that a user is in fact who they claim to be, generally using a simple username/password pair. Strong authentication is generally based on at least two of the three ways to prove you are approved for access
1.Something you know (a password)
2.Something you have (a cardkey or other phsical token)
3.Something you are (voiceprint, fingerprint or retina scan)
Bandwidth
Bandwidth is a measurement for the rate at which data can be transferred, or in non-digital systems, the range of frequencies available for transmission.
BASIC
Acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a very simple programming language originally designed only for instructing students in rudimentary programming, but occassionally used to build actual applications.
Baud
A term referring to the speed at which (usually analog) devices communicate, it refers to the number of transitions in an electronic signal each second. Often used incorrectly to mean BPS. From the scientist J. M. E. Baudot.
BBS
An acronym for Bulletin Board System, a type of computer service where people can read and post public messages, similar to Usenet News but on a much smaller scale.
BCV
Business Continuation Volume. Used by EMC^2 for filesystem mirroring. If you understand this concept, you can find plenty of employment in consulting with EMC^2's customers. (mskalski)
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol, a standard routing protocol, used primarily for routing between large, heterogenous networks with multiple gateways. BGB is defined in RFC 1771. Peer routers exchange routes usingTCP port 179. See also AS, EBGP, IBGP, EIGRP.
Binary
'bI-"ner-E A system of base-2 arithmatic, binaries numbers have only two possible values, 0 (off, or false) or 1 (on or true). The true language of all digital computers.
BINHEX
'bI-n&'hek-s& Acronym for BINary HEXadecimal. A standard for converting 8-bit files into a 7-bit ASCII format for transmission over non-8-bit-clean mediums such as e-mail. BinHex is commonly used on Macintosh systems.
See also: uuencode, bit.
BIOS
bye-ose Acronym for Basic Input/Output System, generally the lowest level of the Operating System, defining the set of routines programs can use to interface with hardware.
bit
Acronym for BInary digiT. The smallest unit of space in computing, a bit contains a single binary value.
See also: byte.
BNC
A twist-lock connector for coaxial cables
bot
Shorthand for 'robot', generally used to refer to an automated program used to process data with minimal human intervention.
bps
Acronym for bits-per-second, a measurement of bandwidth.
See also: , T1, T3.
boot
To start a computer or other device by loading the Operating System. See also bootstrap
bootp
The protocol used to allow a machine to learn it's IP address and other configuration settings from remote server at boot time, as defined in RFC 951.
bootstrap
The ROM routine used to load the OS is often known as the 'bootstrap', from the old expression "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps".
bridge
A bridge is any device that connects two physically distinct network segments, usually at a lower network layer than would a router. (lawsona)
browser
Program used for accessing web, gopher and other internet sites. The most well-known browsers are Lynx, Mosaic, and Netscape.
Cache
A cache is a system for storing frequently accessed information for faster response. Cache memory on your motherboard is extra-fast RAM that keeps a copy of the most recently requested bits from regular RAM. A 'caching proxy web server' keeps the most recently requested web documents stored locally, reducing response time from (often very slow) remote web sites.
CCITT
French acronym for the international standards organization. The "International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee". Part of the United National International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
CC:Mail
A proprietary electronic mail processing system.
CD
Compact Disc, a standard for storing information on an optical media.
Chew
A component of network lag, chew is the percentage of packets that are 'eaten' by the network connection. Ideally no packets should be lost, but the Internet is often anything but ideal.
CID
Caller-ID, a system by which the calling-party number (and sometimes the name and called-number) is transmitted to the called party. Similar to, but less powerful than ANI.
CIDR
Classless interdomain routing, a technique supported by BGP-4 allowing routing routing between multiple independent networks, without the old notion of subnet 'classes' (e.g. Class 'C' network space).
CISC
Complex Instruction-Set Computer. A CPU designed with a thorough set of assembly calls, systems based on this philosophy have smaller binaries but generally slower execution of each individual instruction.
See also RISC.
Cisco
A major network equipment vendor, the name is derived from the city of San Francisco. The company is best known for it's routers and general high quality software and hardware.
CIX
The Commercial Internet Exchange is a trade association of internet connectivity providers.
client
A client connects to a server, with which it exchanges information.
See also: X-window.
Coax
A cable with a single inner conductor and outer shield, used primarily for certain ethernet standards and radio frequency (audio and video) transmission.
See also: twinax.
COE
The Component Object Model, the fundamental class of Microsoft's attempt to defuse the growth of Java platform-independent code.
Cookie
A piece of data given to your browser by a web server, so that your browser will hand it back to the server with subsequent requests. First implemented by Netscape. Although there has been some furor over the privacy implications of cookies, they cannot be used to reveal anything about you to the server that you have not already explicitly revealed. (rebecca)
Compress
To make a file smaller by applying a compression algorithm, usually for the purpose of conserving space or speeding up file transfers. This can also refer to the Unix command to compress a file which appends '.Z' to the filename, '.gz' or to the free GNU enhanced version, gzip.
CPE
Customer Premise Equipment. On digital circuits provided by the telephone company, any terminating hardware owned by the user and not by the telco is generically referred to as CPE.
CPU
Central Processing Unit. The part of a computer that executes commands and interfaces between the various devices and sub-processors.
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check, a simple checksum used for detecting errors.
Cross-Over
A cable or connection which reverses the transmit and receive signals, allowing the direct connection of two devices.
Cryptography
The study of codes, cryptography refers to the making and breaking of algorithms to conceal or otherwise encrypt information. One of the most popular internet encryption schemes is PGP.
CSU
Channel Service Unit, a hardware device used to interface between a serial port and a digital circuit, generally a device used to connect a digital circuit to a serial interface is a "CSU/DSU".
CTCP
An acronym for Client-To-Client-Protocol, a feature of some IRC clients.
cyber-
Deprecated. A prefix used by newbies and lamers to describe internet related topics, such as "cyberspace".
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