The internet terms
The internet termsINTERNET TERMS
TERMS TO KNOW:
1. Anonymous FTP
A traditional form of login to a public ftp site where the username is given as 'anonymous' and the password is your e-mail address, for example '[email protected]'. See ftp.
2. Archie/Telnet/Veronica 1. A storage repository for software, data, or other materials to be saved and preserved.
2. The command and program used to login from one Internet site to another. The telnet command/program gets you to the login: prompt of another host.
3. (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) -- Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus.
See Also: Gopher
2. A technique of combining multiple files into a single file to enable easier backup, handling or transmission. Some of the software programs used to archive files are PKZIP, WinZip, Stuffit, and tar. Files with the following extensions are likely to be archived: sea, tar, taz, taZ, tgz, and zip. See compression
3. ARPANET. The network created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that became the Internet. See the Internet History
4. Backbone A central network connecting other networks together. Formerly a network run by the National Science Foundation for the US, there are now multiple backbones run by commercial providers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, and AT&T.
5. BBS (Bulletin Board System) -- A computerized meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements without the people being connected to the computer at the same time. There are many thousands (millions?) of BBS's around the world, most are very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. Some are very large and the line between a BBS and a system like CompuServe gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn
6. BITNET (Because It's Time NETwork (or Because It's There NETwork)) -- A network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs�, the most popular form of e-mail discussion groups, originated on BITNET. BITNET machines are usually mainframes running the VMS operating system, and the network is probably the only international network that is shrinking.
7. Browser Software that will load and display a web page. The principle browsers are Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mosaic, and the text-only Lynx. See the Internet Software Guide.
8. CompuServe/American Online/Prodigy isp's companies that provide customers with interent access
9. Cyberspace term used to...
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