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Acronyms (Web) Commonly used and understood abbreviations, made from the first letters of the words from phrases that are useful for chat rooms and, to a lesser extent, email where you have to type your side of a conversation. These save everyone's time. If you want the full experience of a chat room, study up on your web acronyms or at least keep this cheat sheet handy. Some are; BTW By The Way IMHO In My Humble Opinion LOL Laugh Out Loud
ActiveX ActiveX is a model for writing programs. ActiveX technology is used to make interactive web pages that look and behave like computer programs, rather than static pages. With ActiveX, users can ask or answer questions, use push buttons, and interact in other ways with the web page.
ADN -- (Advanced Digital Network) A leased data transmission line (56bps).
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. A line with a slower upload speed and higher download speed, e.g. downloads at up to 1.544 megabits per second and upload speed at, say, 128 kilobits per second. Theoretically, upload speed and download speed could be much higher.
Affiliate Someone who promotes a product in between the merchant and the end customers to earn a commission for referring clicks, leads, or sales.
Affiliate Link A link including a piece of special code that is provided to an affiliate for the purpose of tracking referrals.
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This is part of the internet glossary that comes with the software and the instruction guide in CLEVER HTML.
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Affiliate Program Revenue sharing program where an affiliate receives a portion of income for delivering sales, leads, or traffic to a merchant.
Anonymous FTP Logging in to a site to transfer files without supplying a specific username and password.
Applet A small program, written in Java, that is inserted in an HTML page. Applets, unlike full Java programs, can't use the local computer's files, modems, printers, etc. or communicate with other computers - only the computer which sent the applet.
Application Server Software run from a Server to manage how other software is made available on a network. This enables more efficient use of resources e.g. memory and database access.
Archie Software which used to be widely used to find files on anonymous FTP sites. Accuracy depended on you having as much of the actual name of the file you wanted as possible. The web's search engines have almost completely replaced programs such as Archie.
ARPANet Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The military project by the US Department of Defense which preceded the Internet. In the 1960's and the early 1970's, they connected computers that ran different systems and at different locations so that all the users who had authorization could use the combined computing resources from all areas.
ASCII The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is the commonly accepted standard for representing the numbers used by computers for all Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. The 128 standard ASCII codes can be represented by a binary number from 0000000 to 1111111.
ASP Application Service Provider. The organisation which operates one or more computer services (called applications) on their own server and charges others a fee to use those services. The applications which are provided may include organizational or collaborative applications which require significant computing power.
Atom A current protocol which is still under active development for sharing of information (content) which some see as an improvement of RSS. It is also based on XML but supports many additional features.
Auto-Responder An email feature that automatically sends an email message to anyone who sends it a message.
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