 Glossary of Internet Terms |
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Welcome to esn.net's Glossary of Internet Terms, a plain english and hopefully common sense explanation
of internet terms and definitions. New users can familiarize themselves with the complicated
terminology used on the Internet. All entries have been organized alphabetically.
Be sure to use to alphabetic text bar to jump to the section of interest.
- EARN : European Academic Research Network, basically the European equivalent of BITNET.
- Echo : A message area on a Fidonet BBS as well as the return of a transmitted signal to its source.
- Editor : A program that is used to create, edit and save documents. Simple editors are usually built into e-mail and Usenet programs.
- EFF : Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US organization that addresses the social and legal issues arising from the increased use of computer communications.
- EMACS : One of the most common editors found on online systems.
- E-mail : Electronic Mail. A method of sending messages via computer and one of the most popular and important uses of computer communications.
- Encryption : A method of coding data to prevent unauthorized access, most commonly used on the Internet to protect e-mail from prying eyes. See also Cryptography.
- Equalization : A compensation circuit built into some modems to offset distortion caused by the telephone channel.
- Error Checking : A method of detecting errors during data transmission that is employed by many modems, as well as by TCP on the Internet.
- Error Control : A variety of different techniques which check the reliability of characters or blocks of data.
- Ethernet : A type of high speed local area network.
- Etiquette : See Netiquette
- Eudora : A popular electronic mail program dEnterSoftgned for Internet use on a wide variety of computer platforms.
- E-Zine : An electronically distributed fanzine.