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Glossary
accessibility The degree to which social, cultural and other resources
including information are available to users. The exclusion of large fractions
of the world’s populations from such resources because of their economic or
social status is one of the major challenges that now faces providers.
aggregator A website whose main function, rather than producing news
stories and other information, is to link, perhaps with brief synopses, to sites
that do, allowing users to gain access to the maximum number of stories with
minimal searching.
bandwidth The amount of data, measured in bits per second, that can be
sent through a connection. A page of text usually comprises about 15,000 bits
and can be processed by a fast modem in a second or so. Fully featured multimedia
with audio and video demands about 10,000,000 bits per second
depending on how it has been compressed.
[ro]bots Any type of automated software; however, the word specifically
refers to programs (also known as spiders and crawlers) that trawl the web for
specific targets and return information to their originators. Large web directories
such as AltaVista and Lycos are largely built and maintained on
information from bots. Another type of bot, specialising in cocktail party chat
lines, is employed to draw people (and presumably other bots) into IRCs.
browser Client software enabling consumers to take information from the
web. At the time of writing the market is evenly split between two products,
Netscape Communicator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
CERN (Conseil Européen Pour La Recherche Nucléaire) The European Particle
Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. The place where Tim Berners-Lee devised
the WWW software.