Internet Glossary Terms

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Email

Messages sent over the Internet in a standard format. Modern methods allow the inclusion of pictures and the attachment of other file types. Because the format allows almost instantaneous communication in a written form, its style is a mixture of formal writing language and informal spoken phrases. ... read more

Email Forwarding

When email forwarding is activated, messages sent to a certain email address are forwarded to another address. For example: Fred sends an email to someone@somedomain.com. The message is forwarded immediately to you@currentemail.com  read more

Emoticon

A set of characters commonly used in e-mail and USENET newsgroups to signify emotions.  An emoticon can be as simple as including <> or <grin> in the text, meant to indicate that the writer is joking, to some of the complex smiley faces, such as the wink;-) or the frown :-( which are al ... read more

Error detection and correction

A mechanism used during a file transfer to determine whether transmission errors have occurred and to correct those errors, if possible.  Some programs or transmission protocols request a retransmission of the affected block of data if such an error is detected.  More complex protocols attempt to b ... read more

Error message

A message from the program or the operating system, informing you of a condition that requires some human intervention to solve. Error messages can indicate relatively trivial problems, like a disk drive that does not contain a disk, all the way to fatal problems, for example when a serious oper ... read more

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