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Safari

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A type of web browser associated with the Mac OS platform.

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eMail

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Electronic mail. Mail composed and transmitted on a computer system or network.

Internet Explorer

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Internet Explorer (IE) -- sometimes referred to as Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) -- is the most widely used World Wide Web browser. It comes with the Microsoft Windows operating system and can also be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. The IE browser competes with an earlier browser, Netscape, now owned by AOL.

www.webasyst.net/glossary.htm

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eCommerce

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Electric commerce: the conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. Specifically, ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications.
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News Groups

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Discussion forums organized around a particular interest, issue or activity. Can be used to share expertise, views and information, and debate issues.

Netscape

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A graphical browser of the World Wide Web that provides search/retrieval programming, multimedia applications and e-mail functionality to users of the Internet.

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Messaging

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A form of network communication that appears instantly on the monitor of the receiving system. Also called instant messaging.
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TCP/IP

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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP.
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Opera

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Opera is a Web browser that provides some differences with the two most popular browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. Much smaller in size, Opera is known for being fast and stable.

Online Gaming

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Internet games (also known as online games) are games that are played online via the Internet. They are distinct from video and computer games in that they are normally platform independent, relying solely on client-side technologies (normally called 'plugins'). Normally all that is required to play Internet games are a web browser and the appropriate plugin (normally available for free via the plugin maker's website). A game played in a browser is often called a browser-based game.
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Search Engines

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Permits searching of documents and databases accessible on the Internet. Search engines can be set up to search only content within one Web site or to search the entire Internet. Many search engine developers have their own web sites such as Lycos and Alta Vista. In addition to search engines there are index sites such as Yahoo, where links to Web sites are organized into categories so that you can browse categories rather than guessing at search terms.
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Cookies

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Contains the information that tell you the times and dates that you have visited web sites. Information can be saved to hard disks in these text files, for example, online purchases, validation information about you for members-only web sites, and more.

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Connecting

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A computer connects to other computers (the internet) via a modem (examples: telephone, cable, DSL).
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Security

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The protection of information assets through the use of technology, processes, and training.

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Dreamweaver

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Dreamweaver is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Dreamweaver creates and maintaining basic websites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/

internet history

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connecting poeple while they are on the computer and the earliest versions appeared in the late 1950s.

Privacy

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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those whom they choose to give the information.

Examples of Privacy:  Political privacy, Medical privacy, Genetic privacy, Privacy during an online job search, Internet Privacy, Privacy from corporations and Privacy from government interference.

(taken from wikipedia.com)

Virus Protection

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A virus is a code which can either lie dormant in a computer and be not particualry harmful, but it can can also cause computers to shut down, lose of data, and even make the computer need to be reformatted. To prevent this Virus Protection has been created. There are many different programs for Virus protection or Anti-virus software, some working better than others, but the aim of all the programs is to protect your computer from harmful and useless virus's.
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Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

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Encryption

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Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext , that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people. Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood.

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