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  A Summary of Computing and Internet Terms to Help with Cyber-Speak.

  If you would like any other words added, when please email Patrick Roberts
  via
bcsnlb@yahoo.co.uk preferably with the word and definition.

  New terms are being added all the time.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #
A
AAA
AARP
AAUI
ABEND
ACAP
Accelerator
Access Log
ACD
ACL
Active Matrix Display
ActiveX
ACTS
ADB
ADSL
ADSP
Adware
AEP
AFIS
AGP
AI
AIFF
ALGOL
Altair
Anchor
Annie
Angel
ANSI
AP
API
APIPA
APNIC
APPC
APPN
Appleshare
Applet
Appletalk
Archangel
Archie
ARIN
ARP
ARPANet
ASCII
ASP
ASPI
ATA
ATAPI
AtoM
ATM
AUI
AUP
Authentication
Avatar
AVI
AWK

B
b-blog
b-channel
B-ISDN
B2B
B2C
Backbone
Back End
Bandwidth
Banner Ad
Baud
Baud Barf
Baud Rate
BBS
BEDO DRAM
Beta Bugs
Beta Testing
Beyond The Banner
BGP
BICSI
BIOS
Bit
Bit Bucket
Bitlegging
Black Hat
Blackberry
Blatherer
blog
Bluetooth
Boil The Ocean
Boilerplate
BOOTP
Bot
Bozo Filter
BPDU
bps
Bread Crumbs
BREW
BRI
Bricks And Mortar
Bridge
Broadband
Broadcast
Broadcast Storm
Browser
Browser Hijacking
Buffer
Buffer Overflow
Bus
Byte
Bytecode

C
C-RIMM
Cache
CAD
CAD/CAM
CADD
CAE
CAN
CAS
CASE
CBDPTA
CCITT
CDDI
CDF
CDFS
CDMA
CERN
CERT
CFML
CGI
Channel
CHAP
Chat Room
Chatter's Block
Checkpoints
Checksum
CICS
CIDR
CIR
CISC
CIW
Click Rate
Clicks And Mortar
Client
Cloaking
Cluster
Clustering
CMC
CMIP
CMS
CMYK
CNR
COBRA
Cobweb Site
CODEC
COLD
Cold Fusion
COM
Command
Compiler
Configuration Item
Configuration Management
Console
Cookie
CORBA
Cornea Gumbo
CPA
CPAN
CPC
CPM
CPS
Cracker
Crapplet
CRC
CRM
Cross-posting
CRT
CSMA/CA
CSMA/CD
CSP
CSS
CSTN
CSU/DSU
CSV
CTI
CTS
Cuckoo Egg
Cyber Squatting
Cyberslacking

D
d-channel
DAA
DARPA
DAS
Data Flow Model
Data Mart
Data Mining
Data Warehouse
Datagram
DCOM
DDoS
DDR
DDR-SDRAM
DDWG
Deadlock
DECT
DES
DFD
DHCP
DHTML
Digerati
DIMM
DIP
Distance Learning
DIX
DLC address
DLT
DMCA
DMZ
DNS
DOM
Domain
Dongle
Dot-Bomb
Dot-Com
Dot-Corp
Dot-Hon
Downloading
DPI
DRAM
DRM
DSDM
DSL
DSRC
DSSS
DSTN
DTD
DTV
DVI

E
E-Business
E-Commerce
E-Zine
Easter Egg
EAI
EAP
EBCDIC
EBT
ECML
ECP
EDGE
EDI
EDO-DRAM
EEPROM
EFS
EFT
EIDE
EJB
ELAP
Elevator Pitch
Emoticons
EPOC
EPP
ERM
ERP
ESDI
ESP
Ethernet
EtherTalk
ETSI
EULA
Extranet

F
Fail Soft
Failover
FAQ
FAT
FAT32
FCC
FCS
FDDI
Ferret
FHSS
Finger
Fire Off
Firewall
Firewire
Firmware
FIX
Flame
Flash
Flood
Flops
Forum
FPM RAM
FPU
FQDN
Frame
Frames
FreeBSD
Freeware
Fried
Front End
FSB
FTP
FTTC
FTTH
FUI

G
Gatekeeping
Gateway
GGSN
Ghost Image
Ghost Site
GIF
Gigabyte
Gigaflop
Glonass
GML
GNOME
GNSS
GNU
Gopher
GPRS
GPS
GSM
Guard Time
GUI

H
Hacker
HAN
Hang
Hardware
HAVi
HBA
HDML
HDTV
Hit
HLLAPI
Home Page
Honeypot
Hop
Host
Hot Plugging
Hot Spot
Hotspot
HPA
HPFS
HPGL
HPNA
HPSS
HSCSD
HSM
HSRP
HSSI
HTML
HTTP
HTTPS
Hub
Hyper-Threading
HyperCard
Hyperlink
Hypertext

I
i-mode
IAB
IANA
ICANN
Ice
ICMP
IDE
IEEE
IETF
IGMP
IGP
IGRP
iHTML
IIOP
IIS
IITF
IM
IMAP
IMEI
IMIS
Inode
Incubator
Integer
Internesia
Internet
Internet Protocol
InterNIC
Interoperability
Intranet
IP Address
IPSec
IRC
IRM
IRQ
IRTF
IS-IS
ISA
ISAPI
ISDN
ISEB
ISO
ISoc
ISP
ITU
IVR

J
J2EE
J2ME
Jabber
Jaggies
Janet
Java
Javabeans
Javascript
JDBC
JDK
Jello
Jini
JIT
Jitter
JNI
Jolt
JPEG
JSP
JTAPI
Jumper
JVM

K
KDE
Kerberos
Kermit
Kernel
Keyword
Kilobyte
KIP

L
Lag
LAMP
LAN
Landgrab
LAT
Latency
LAWN
LBA
LCD
LCP
LDAP
LEC
Link
Link Farming
Linux
Liquid
LLC
LMHOSTS
Load
LSA
Lurker

M
MAC
MAC Address
MalWare
MAN
MAPI
MAU
Mbone
MDA
Megabyte
Meta Refresh
Meta Tags
MIB
MIDI
MIME
MLM
MLPPP
MMS
MMU
MNP
Mobo
Module
Mosaic
Mount
Mouse Potato
Mozilla
MPEG
MP3
MPLS
MPOA
MPP
MSCDEX
MSP
MTA
MUA
MUD
Multi-Media
Multicasting
MVS

N
Nano Technology
NAP
NAS
NAT
NCSC
NDIS
NDS
NetBEUI
NetBIOS
Netiquette
Network
Network Meltdown
Newbie
Newsgroup
Newsreader
NFS
NHRP
NHTCU
Nibble
NIC
NIST
Nit
NLP
NNTP
Node
Northbridge
NOW
NSA
NSAPI
Nslookup
NTFS
NUMA
NVRAM
NYM
NYM Server

O
OBI
OCR
OCX
ODBC
ODI
OEM
OFDM
OFX
OLAP
OLE
OLED
OMG
On The Fly
OOG
OOP
OpenDoc
Opera
ORB
ORM
OSI
OSP
OSPF
OTP
OUI
Overflow Error

P
P2P
Packet
PAN
PAP
PAT
Patch
PCI
PCL
PCMCIA
PCS
PDA
PDL
PERL
PGA
PGP
Phishing
PHP
Phreaking
PLED
Plug and Play
Plug and Pray
Plug-in
Polyline
PON
POP
Port
Portal
POSIX
POST
Postscript
POTS
PPGA
PPI
PPP
PPPoE
PPTP
PRI
Protocol
PSTN
Pull
Pulsing Zombie
Pure Play
Push
Python

Q
QAM
QoS
QPS
QXGA

R
RAD
Radio Button
RADIUS
Rain Fade
RAM
RARP
RAS
Raster Graphics
RBAC
RCDD
RDBMS
RDP
RDRAM
Reciprocal Link
Re-Mailer
Repeater
RFC
RFID
RIMM
RIP
RIPE NCC
RISC
RMON
Roaming
ROI
ROKSO
ROM
Router
RSVP
RTMP
RTO
Runt

S
SAC
SAML
SAN
SASL
SAX
Screen Saver
SCSI
SCM
SDRAM
SDK
Search Engine
Segment
SEO
Serial ATA
Server
Server Farm
SET
SGCP
SGML
SGSN
Shareware
SHTML
SIMM
SIMPLE
SIP
SLA
SLD RAM
SLIP
Smartdrive
SMB
SMDS
SMIS
SMP
SMS
SMT
SMTP
SNA
SNAP
SNIA
SNMP
SO-DIMM
SOA
SOAP
Socket
Software
Solar Fade
sonet
SORBS
Southbridge
Spam
SPARC
SPEC
Spew
SPEWS
Spider
Splash Page
SSA
SSADM
SSG
SSI
SSL
SSO
SSP
SSSCA
STP
Streaming
SWAP
Switch

T
TACACS
Tag
TAN
TAR
TCB
TCG
TCL
TCO
TCP/IP
TCPA
TCSEC
TDMA
TDR
Terabyte
TeX
TFT
TFTP
Thread
TIFF
TLD
TLP
TMDS
TNIEG
Topology
TPEP
TPS
Traffic
Tree Structure
Trojan Horse
TTL
TTS
Tweening

U
UART
UDDI
UDP
UML
UMTS
UNC
Unicode
UNIX
Uploading
URI
URL
USB
USENET
USSD
UTP
UUCP
UXGA

V
VAN
Vanilla
VAX
VC
VCACHE
Vector Graphics
Veronica
VFAT
Video Conferencing
Virtual Machine
Virus
VLAN
VLIW
VLSM
VMS
VOD
VPN
VRAM
VRML
VRRP
VSAM
Vulture Capitalist

W
W3C
WAI
WAIS
Walled Garden
WAN
WAP
Warchalking
WCDMA
We-Commerce
Web Beacon
Webcasting
WECA
WEP
White Hat
Whitelist
wi-fi
wi-fi5
WiMAX
WINS
WIPO
WLAN
WML
World Wide Web
Worm
WRAM
WSDL
WTLS
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYP

X
xDSL
XHTML
XLink
XML
Xmodem
XPointer
XSL
XSLT

Y
Yettie
Ymodem

Z
Z-buffering
ZIP
Zmodem
Zombie
Zone
ZV Port

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