These are servers which work
as the central hub for the ISP's.
These are servers which work
as the central hub for the ISP's.
Internet
Service Provider.
An acronym
for frequently asked questions. Most UseNet
newsgroups have an FAQ file, which answers the most common questions on
the topic. For example: to find out the odds of being dealt a royal flush,
read the FAQ for rec.gambling.poker.
A form is a special
page of the World Wide Web that allows the user to input information. The
most common use of a form is filling out a questionnaire. A button often
appears on the form page to submit the information; i.e., it sends the
filled-out form via email. For More Information:
FTP
An acronym for file transfer
protocol. This is one of the oldest and most popular methods of sending
files across the Internet. Because the World Wide Web offers similar functionality
and is easier to use, the popularity of FTP is declining. However, when
a library of large files needs to be made available to technically experienced
users, FTP is the best method.
Most software that you can download from the Internet comes from FTP sites.
An FTP site is the computer
that offers files for public access. These might be image files, sounds,
motion pictures, text, or computer software.
The term hit is an
access of your Web site. There are a great variety of definitions of what
a "hit" is. The most popular definitions are:
At I-205Net.com,
we do not use the "hit" as a measurement of web traffic because
it does not indicate the load that the web site places on the internet
server. Furthermore, it is only a vague indicator of the web sites popularity,
since many sites inherently send more files, contain more graphics, etc.
The only fair way to charge for bandwidth is by the megabyte transferred.
For more information, see our Rates
and Services page.
When you clicked on the word
hyperlink to get to this page, you were
using a hyperlink. A hyperlink is a special area on a Web page which can
be activated (usually with a mouse). The hyperlink can appear as text or
graphics.
Most hyperlinks take you
to another Web page. Other hyperlinks perform special functions, such as
sending email, submitting a form, accessing an ftp site, execute a database
query, or access a Usenet newsgroup.
Every browser has a function
which backs up to the previous page (either a LEFT arrow to go back, or
a RIGHT arrow to go forward). In Netscape and Mosaic you
press the right mouse button while the cursor is over the text or graphic
that you want additional information about. Therefore, you can delve into
the detail of a hyperlink and later return to the page that referred you
there.
HTML stands for hyper-text
markup language. It is the standard language which defines web
pages. HTML includes the following features:
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A measure of data storage
equivalent to roughly one million chracters of text. Abbreviation: Mb.
Your account with I-205Net.com will have ten
megabytes of storage, which should be more than enough for even a very
large Web site.
High resolution color images
are the largest use of storage, with large images taking up as much as
a one-half Mb. We suggest that images on the World Wide Web be no larger
than one-tenth Mb, since users do not appreciate the downloading times
associated with larger images.
You can figure roughly 1
second per kilobyte (1k or 1000bytes) to download a file (or upload). Therefore
a 1Mb file could take as long as 16.66 minuets. Likewise if you have a
1Mb picture on your WEB site it would take the person viewing your site
around 16 minuets before they could view your entire picture. A one-tenth
Mb (100K) picture will take around 100 seconds, too large under normal
circumstances. (see design tips)
The rule of thumb is if your
page takes longer than 17 seconds to download the person browsing your
site will get impatient and go somewhere else. Many page designers fail
to grasp this concept—they think their content is so valuable that people
will wait!
A mailing list is a method
of internet communications. You can broadcast your own message to all members
of a mailing list by sending your letter to the computer known as the list
server. There are thousands of mailing lists devoted to subjects
of entertainment, academia, business, and more.
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Optical Character Recognition
An acronym for Pretty
Good Privacy, a method of data-encryption that allows people
to communicate on the internet without fear of their private messages being
read by high-tech eavesdroppers.
A simple message like: Hello
Alice --"This is Bob. Call me tonight at 9" will be encrypted
using the recipient's public key. When this is done, the message turns
into gibberish like: "hUe&6kalO_e5qlAre4#1jkaU19J
@dla=mCxk$q4yXv3i*d", and is sent to the recipient, who is
able to decrypt the message using a private key
only known to her or him.
PGP and methods like it (RSA,
DES, etc.) are beginning to be used for transmitting data which should
not be stolen, impersonated, or tampered with. A good example is the use
of transmitting credit card information online. While this technique is
still in its infancy on the World Wide Web, it is rapidly becoming an important
issue of online commerce.
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Scanning is a method of taking
line art (eg.: company logo's) photographs, and pages of typed text, and
making an electronic picture of it. This can sometimes be very tricky,
the reason is that every time one changes the medium (eg.: painting to
film) some of the original quality is lost, and there is some color shifting
which must be corrected. This process requires considerable skill. Also,
and this is most important, printed art is lighted from the front, and
computer art is lighted from the back. The cost of doing scanning is directly
proportional to how precise the colors must be maintained. Line art is
not as big a problem, mostly because their are fewer colors involved. Text
scanning (OCR) is usually not a problem unless the original
is of poor quality or formatted in strange ways, or uses some uncommon
font which may get scanned as line art.
Essentially
the computer and operating system which acts as a server for your internet
connection. This is your link to the backbone of the internet
UseNet is a facet of the
internet which allows public notices to rapidly travel around the world.
Anybody with internet access can both read this messages, or post their
own message. Certain categories, called newsgroups, exist on virtually
every imaginable subject.
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