 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.
- National Science Foundation : A U.S Government agency that was instrumental in the development of the Internet which still administers one of the Internet's important backbones, the NSFNET.
- NCSA : The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, and the developers of the Mosaic World Wide Web Browser.
- Net : Generally used as another name for the Internet.
- Netfind : A service that helps find e-mail addresses for people on the Internet.
- Net God : Someone who has achieved a "Godlike" status on the Internet, either though the development of part of the Net or tools used in it.
- Net Guru : An Internet expert, someone who is respected for their knowledge of the Internet. A Net Guru may be the author of an Internet book or two, an Internet journalist, or more commonly someone who commands great respect on the Internet, due to the sharing of their knowledge with others.
- Net Police : A term applied to those people who feel it is their duty to tell others how they should behave in Cyberspace.
- Net Surfer : Someone who "surfs" the Internet, wandering around looking for interesting places to visit, useful files to grab, and new people to talk to.
- Netiquette : Etiquette of the online community.
- Network : A group of computers that communicate with each other.
- Network News : Transfer Protocol NNTP, this is the protocol used for distribution of Usenet Newsgroups.
- Newbie : Someone who is a newcomer to a Usenet group, or someone who is just starting out on the Internet.
- Newsgroup : A message area, defined by subject matter, which forms part of Usenet. Newsgroups are composed of a number of articles, or messages, which are posted by Usenet participants.
- Newsreader : Program used to read and post to any Usenet newsgroups.
- NFS : Network File system which allows use of files on remote network machines as if they were on your local machine.
- NIC : Network Information Centre.
- Node : A computer attached to a network.
- NSFNET : National Science Foundation Network is one of the networks that makes up the Internet.
- Null Modem : A cable used to directly connect two computers by their serial ports in which the transmitting and receiving pins are swapped.
- Numeric Database : A database containing specific numbers.