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flame Derogatory comment often articulated with some crudity; also
employed as a verb.
form and content Markup languages for news now insist on the separation
of form and content. The basic text of documents is structured separately
from stylistic and design elements. The principle allows for the greater portability
of content across a whole range of applications from print to WAP.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) A file format employed to transmit
images pixel by pixel over the Internet. Other formats in current use are JPEG
and PNG.
globalisation A catch-all concept used to describe the interpenetration of
national markets determined by systems of capital that remain unattached to
nation states and technologies of production which easily and rapidly
leapfrog themselves (and hence can be redeployed in new locations on a
regular basis). Contemporary models of consumption, seemingly encouraging
violent cultural and social fragmentation, give a cultural inflection to a
process that might otherwise appear to be largely economic.
graphics Two- or three-dimensional images such as illustrations or
photographs. The convention of small graphics (icons) used to symbolise
complex computing functions led to the development of the ‘graphical
browser’ or icon-driven web server and similar interfaces for most popular
software packages.
hacker (more correctly cracker) A (usually malicious) user who tries to access
sensitive information. The term ‘hacker’ also applies to those who enjoy
exploring software systems with a view to extending their capabilities.
home page The main (entry) web page for a business, organisation, person or
simply the main page out of a collection of web pages. The word originally
referred to the page that a browser was defaulted to open to.
host (server) A web host or server stores web pages and allows clients
(browsers and search engines) to read them and to write to them.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) A set of instructions (tags) which
render text and images browser-readable and enable hyperlinks. Most web
pages are still constructed in HTML.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) The computer protocols (or handshake)
which enable the movement of data (rendered as hypertext) around
the Internet.
hyperlink A gateway from a particular point in a document which opens on
to another location either in the same document or another one hosted in