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Glossary
of Terms Relating to WWW, Internet and Web Hosting etc. |
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Those who: use internet, are IT professional / computer science
students; they may |
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something
know about these terms. Therefore, we have tried to provide you
the relevant knowledge. |
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This list is not complete, by any means. If you have any terms that
you would like to be added to this glossary, e-mail your request
to yourtieinfo@yahoo.com |
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Online |
Being
connected to the Internet via an ISP. Used as an adjective,
it describes a variety of activities that users do
on the Internet, for example: online chat, online
shopping, online games, online searching, online communities,
and on and on. |
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Open
Content |
Copyrighted
information (such as this Glossary) that is made available
by the copyright owner to the general public under
license terms that allow reuse of the material, often
with the requirement (as with this Glossary) that
the re-user grant the public the same rights to the
modified version that the re-user received from the
copyright owner.
Information that is in the Public Domain might also
be considered a form of Open Content. |
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Open
Source Software |
Open
Source Software is software for which the underlying
programming code is available to the users so that
they may read it, make changes to it, and build new
versions of the software incorporating their changes.
There are many types of Open Source Software, mainly
differing in the licensing term under which (altered)
copies of the source code may (or must be) redistributed. |
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Opera |
The
internet browser from the company Opera. |
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OS
-- (Operating System) |
The
software that manages the basic operating of a computer. |
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