Internet: software used to connect any computer (over 30,000 worldwide with over 2 million users) Almares gives a more precise definition as "not the program but the cyberspace in which connected computers and systems can communicate".

Gateway: the server that allows access to the internet

Dumb terminal: your personal computer when accessing a gateway on internet; for an even better definition see Fujii

Webmaster: person in charge of the CSS server( currently Eric Hagen) : new Webmaster Charlessee Kaneshiro's definition

World Wide Web: the web ( more sophisticated definition will be forthcoming). As promised, the more sophisticated definition will be given by Higa

Home Page: the index page to my small contributions to the internet

Links: connections between files

Bookmarks: tags that allows me to mark a specific file or portion (link) of a file

Generational Cyberspace Viritual Learning Community: Dr. James' name for our group

Address Book: used in PINE and allwos a coded nickanme to be used to call up an address when sending e-mail

Gopher: term for a Minnisota native; software developed by Uninverisy of Minnisota following a simple protocol for tunneling through TCP/IP internet; address is gopher@gopher.hawaii.edu

JUGHEAD: Jonzie's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display; search tool for occurances of specific words

Veronica: title search and retrival system for use with Internet gopher; Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index of Computerized Archives

Well: the largest community based home page system in cyberspace

Thomas: service of US Congress; includes full text of the legislation of the 103rd Congress

Scout Report: weekly publication provided by the InfoScout and InterNIC Information services; provides a sampling of newly announced Internet resources


As was noted in Week Five labreport, awareness of reports on the Inter Net in the media has been more noticable. These are some entries I got from the "Today Show" for March 12. The interview was with J. C. Herz, author of the book " surfing on the Inter Net: A Nethead's Adventure on Line":
Nethead:someone who spends a lot of time on line; formerly the computer nerd, now a more mainstream type
BRB: be right back
BTW: by the way. I also found this term and the following one in Fujii's glossary
IHMO: in my humble opinion
LOL: laughing out loud
There were also some interesting symbols, which the author called Emotioncons, mentioned in the interview:
:-) :sarcasm ;-) :"winkey" :) :upset; depressed
see Diaz for more on emoticons.