An Icon is a small picture that is displayed on the screen. It is intended to depict pictorially a task. By clicking the icon with the mouse will invoke the task. It is an essential component of a Graphical User Interface. Examples include: A folder with a magnifying glass to depict Windows Explorer; A book with a question mark to depict a help file; A blue notepad to depict, believe it or not, Windows Notepad.
ICQ stands for "I seek you". It is an Internetprogram that notifies you of other users who are on the Internet & enables you to initiate contact with these users. You can chat, play computer games, send messages to them. Click Here for more information on ICQ.
Images which have specified areas that are hyperlinked to another page or service. Clicks on different portions of the image go to different links. All browsers that can display images support server-side imagemaps; newer browsers also support client-side imagemaps, which resolve more quickly and can provide more feedback to the user.
Relates to counting the number of times a webpage advertising banner is displayed - Normally in a 24-hour period - My Glossary has the Link Exchange Banner & an impression relates to this banner being displayed once.
An index is something that points at other information - a program will often use an index to locate a particular record on a file - same concept as an index in a book. Most Databases make use of indexes
A method of providing information to a process running on a computer, either from keyboard, disk, modem, or other devices. It is also an HTML form tag allowing the user to enter data
Deals with 2 out of 3 of the activities (input, processing, and output) performed by a PC. I/O are complimentary tasks of gathering data for the microprocessor to work with and making the results available to the user through a device such as the monitor or printer. The keyboard and the mouse are input devices that make information available to the computer; the display and printer are output devices with which the computer makes its results available to the user. The Hard Disk is both an input and an output device because it can either provide stored information or store the data after processing
Interactive in PC & internet terminology is no different to the meaning used in everyday life i.e. something which requires the person using it to be involved in a two way process or conversation e.g. click a button to display a new webpage. The Glossary is interactive.
The Internet is a worldwide computer network through which you can send a letter, chat to people electronically or search for information on almost any subject you care to think of. Quite simply it is a "network of computer networks". It originated in the 1960's in the USA where the US defense was conscious of having its computer network destroyed by blowing up the central computer. A network was designed around the principle of "unreliable computers" - if one was destroyed or failed the remaining computers could still function. Each computer in the network acknowledges the existence of all of the others.
Microsoft's free World-Wide Webbrowser for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh. Internet Explorer is the main rival to Netscape Navigator (which runs on many more platforms). Both support the same core features and offer incompatible extensions.
Is the CB Radio of the Internet. Basically you can "chat" to a number of people by typing simple messages at your keyboard & these are responded to by one or more other people from all over the world who happen to be "chatting" to you via IRC.
An organization that provides its customers with dialup access to the internet for a fee. Generally, ISP1/4s only provide their users with an internet connection, an electronic mail (E-mail) address, and in some instances, World Wide Web Browsing software. You can use a local ISP that has access numbers in your local calling area, or you can use a natioal ISP that provides local-access numbers across the country (eg. Earthlink, AT&T Worldnet, America Online, Compuserve, etc.).
A unique 32-bit Internet address consisting of four numbers, separated by dots and sometimes called a "dotted quad". Every server - connected to the Internet - has an IP number. The IP number of webguest.com is "208.28.202.95".
Internet Relay Chat is the CB Radio of the Internet. Basically you can "chat" to a number of people by typing simple messages at your keyboard & these are responded to by one or more other people from all over the world who happen to be "chatting" to you via IRC.