Internet Glossary Terms

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ActiveX

A software system developed and sold by Microsoft for creating and running interactive multimedia (text, graphics, video, and sound files) on websites.  read more

Address Verification Service (AVS)

A method of reducing fraud in mail order/telephone order transactions by using cardholder billing address information in the authorisation request.  read more

ADSL

Short for asymmetric digital subscriber line, a new technology that allows more data to be sent over existing copper telephone lines.  read more

ALT Newsgroups

A set of USENET news-groups that often contain articles on controversial subjects usually considered to be outside of the mainstream. These newsgroups were originally created to avoid the rigorous process required to create a normal USENET newsgroup.  Some alt news-groups contain valuable discussio ... read more

America Online

One of the most popular and fastest-growing of the commercial online services, often abbreviated as AOL. America Online provides a well-designed and easy-to-use service that includes a wide range of content, email services, and basic Internet-access services.  Many hardware and software vendors ... read more

Antivirus

A software program designed to identify and remove a known or potential computer virus.  read more

Apache

Is a free open source program used by web servers to handle web requests and serve web pages etc.  read more

API

(Application program interface) A set of standard software interrupts, calls, and data formats that application programs use to initiate contact with network services, mainframe communications programs, or other program-to-program communication.  For example, applications use APIs to call services ... read more

Applet

 A small application program, limited in scope to one small but useful task.  A calculator program or a card game might be called an applet.  read more

Autoresponders

Autoresponders are an E-mail feature which will automatically respond to E-mails.  You might want to use an autoresponder whilst you are on holiday to notify customers/colleagues about who to contact whilst you are away.  Of you might want to setup an information address to email data ... read more

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