The Online World resources handbook
The Online World resources handbook
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Frequently used terms http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v4.html<br />
A search engine looks up the word(s) you input in an index to Web documents. Indexes<br />
vary in size. None will be completely comprehensive and up to date though most are<br />
updated regularly and some are huge. Some also cover Usenet news archives, and there<br />
are others for gopher servers.<br />
Server<br />
$ FRPSXWHU RU D VRIWZDUH SDFNDJH WKDW SURYLGHV D VSHFLILF NLQG RI VHUYLFH WR FOLHQW<br />
software running on other computers. <strong>The</strong> term can refer to a particular piece of<br />
software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running.<br />
(Example: mail server is down today, that's why email isn't getting out.")<br />
A single server machine could have several different server software packages<br />
running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network.<br />
Shareware<br />
Copyrighted programs, texts, or other types of application files sold on a try before<br />
you buy basis. If you continue using the item past a certain evaluation period, you must<br />
pay the author a given "registration fee." Also often referred to as "user supported."<br />
Snail mail<br />
A pejorative term referring to the national postal service in different countries.<br />
Spam (or Spamming)<br />
An inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list, a conference, or another networked<br />
communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium by sending the same message to<br />
many people who didn't ask for it.<br />
String search<br />
A method for searching a database. Works like the search function in a common word<br />
processor program.<br />
On online services, your commands will often search the full document (including<br />
the title, subtitles, keywords, and the full text). Sometimes, string searches just return a<br />
line or a few lines around the hit. In other cases, they return the full screen or the full<br />
document.<br />
Sysop<br />
Common name used on bulletin boards for System Operator. This is the person in charge<br />
of maintenance and helping users.<br />
System<br />
Generic name for a computer with connected equipment or for an online service or<br />
bulletin board.<br />
Leased lines come in different grades of which T 1 and T 3 are examples. A T 1 link<br />
provides a communications link at up to 2.048 megabits per second.<br />
T1<br />
T3<br />
A term for a digital carrier facility used to send a DS 3 formatted digital signal at 44.746<br />
megabits per second.<br />
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