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Gateway |
The
technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up
that translates between two dissimilar protocols,
for example America Online has a gateway that translates
between its internal, proprietary e-mail format and
Internet e-mail format. Another, sloppier meaning
of gateway is to describe any mechanism for providing
access to another system, e.g. AOL might be called
a gateway to the Internet. |
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GB
(Gigabyte) |
1000
or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring.
Remember that there is a difference in between "Gb"
and "GB" as first term stands for "Giga
Bits" while second one is "Giga Byte"
which is 8 times more than "Gb". |
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GIF
-- (Graphic Interchange Format) |
AA
compressed format for storing images developed by
CompuServe. One of the most common image formats on
the Internet.
A common format for image files, especially suitable
for images containing large areas of the same color.
GIF format files of simple images are often smaller
than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format,
but GIF format does not store photographic images
as well as JPEG.
It was developed by Compuserve using compression technology
from Unisys. On the World Wide Web pictures and graphics
you see on Web pages are usually in GIF format because
the files are small and download quickly. Another
type of graphics format used commonly are JPEG these
files download even faster and contain a better resolution
but cannot be interlaced so many Web page authors
tend to opt for using GIF's instead to get that "melting"
onto the screen effect that happens with interlaced
images . |
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GNR
-- (Global Name Registry) |
The
registry that is responsible for operating the new
TLD (Top Level Domain), .name. |
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Gopher |
Invented
at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before
the Web, gopher was a widely successful method of
making menus of material available over the Internet.
Gopher was designed to be much easier to use than
FTP, while still using a text-only interface.
Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which
requires that the user have a Gopher Client program.
Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in
only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted
by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web).
There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the
Internet and we can expect they will remain for a
while. |
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| Graphics |
In
web terms graphics describe pictures (opposite to
text). |
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Graphic
Monitor |
A
display monitor that can display graphics. |
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Graphic
Printer |
A
printer that can print graphics. |
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