Terms

• IRC-An Internet Relay Chat. From my understanding, this is like a room where people can meet and converse, on the internet. I was wrong, but I'm still not clear on what this is..yet...
• Archie-A service on the internet that allows you to search a database of information. What that information consists of, I don't know, yet...
• Online-Connected to another computer
• HTML-A language used in documents on the web, that tells the computer how to format the text and that allows for links.
• Newsgroup-A group of people with a common interest. I'm not sure though whether they meet on the net, or just e-mail eachother.
• Shareware-Software that you can download for free. But if you decide that you want to continue to use it, you must mail the developer the fee.
• Download-Receiving a file.
• Upload=sending a file.
• Filename Extension - A code at the end of a file name that has been compressed, indicating which program was used to compress it, telling you which program to use to decompress it.
• Veronica-A program that searches a database of Gopher servers. See Trudy Moore's definition. Also similar to Jughead.
• Server-A machine that makes things available on the a network. (still unsure)
• Baud Rate-The speed at which the information travels from one machine to another via a modem ,which Beverly Diaz has a great definition of.
• AOL -Acronym for America On Line. A set up similar to the Internet, but with less things. People with AOL can send and receive e-mail to those on the Net, can FTP and some other things, but do not have Web access.
• Mirror Site -An FTP site that has exactly the same things as somewhere else. This makes it so that the original site is not slowed down by too many people accessing it.
• .sea - This is placed at the end of a filename to show that it is a self-extracting file. (For Mac users). See filename extension.
• Stuffit - A mac program that unpacks (uncompresses) files ending in .sit.
• Self-extracting - When you double click on it, it decompresses itself.
• Compression -Making the file smaller (less K).
• Thread - The topic of the conversation.
• Man Pages - These are similar to pages of a manual. You can access many of these at the unix prompt. Just type man <whatever instructions you want>.
• X-modem, Y-modem, Z-modem - File transfer protocols.
• Protocol - A language the computers use when talking to eachother.
• HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol - The protocol used by the Web.
• Finger - A program that gives you information about other people on the Net.
• Attachments - Files that are linked to e-mail.
• uudecode - A unix program for decoding files that have been uuencoded.
• Jughead - A searching program for Gopher, (see Trudy Moore's definition. Also like Veronica
• Usenet - A network of discussion groups.
• Archive Site - A site on the Web that offers software, compressed for downloading.
• FTP - File Trans fer Protocol - A way to retreive files from other locations into your directory.

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