What is the meaning of these words?

Question

ASCII, Cookie, Domain Name, FAQ, Download, Firewall, FTP, GIF, gopher, Hyperlink, Intranet, Multimedia, Plugin, PPP, protocol, server, URL, Worm, Search Engine, Meta search engine, WAN. Please help and i will study them once i know what they mean.

Answer 1

Is this homework or are you just curious?  People usually don't like to do people's homework for them, and this is easily available from any search engine.  (Yahoo.com is a search engine)

ASCII - Assigns specific letters, numbers, and control codes to the 256 different combinations of 0s and 1s in a byte.  Don't worry too much about it.

Cookie - a text document that is used by websites to keep user statistics, login information, and browsing habits.

Domain Name: a web site name, such as google.com

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Download - the transfer of a file from one computer to another.   The computer that has the file is uploading, the computer that is recieving the file is downloading.

Firewall - A program or piece of hardware which restricts unsolicited attempts to communicate with computers on a private network.

FTP - File Transfer Protocol  

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format

Gopher - this one is a really old term, I used it back in 1995, but I don't remember exactly what it was.  I think it was like a primative search engine.

Hyperlink - a clickable link to another page or site on the internet.

Intranet - a local network

Multimedia - use multiple media such as Audio, Video, etc.

Plugin - an add-on to an existing program used to add additional functionality or customizability to an existing program

PPP - don't know

protocol - an aggreed upon communication format for a specific purpose.  HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the basis for all web pages.

server - a computer that remains on 24/7 that hosts web pages, files, or other applications or information for access by users over the internet or local network.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator; an address that specifies the location of a file on the Internet

Worm - a computer virus which spreads by using other infected machines to help send copies of itself.

Search Engine - like google.com. used to search for information on web pages accross the internet based on the user 's search terms.

Meta search engine - searches with multiple search engines.

WAN - Wide Area Network

Answer 2

Here are my meanings:

ASCII -American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), pronounced /ˈæski/[1] is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters than did the original — have a historical basis in ASCII.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

Cookie -HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as Web cookies, tracking cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web client (usually a browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Domain Name -In computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is managed according to some common property of the members or within a common administrative boundary. In particular, the term is used to describe the regions of administrative authority within the Domain name system used for the Internet (cf. DNS zone).

Domain names are used in a variety of contexts for identification, reference, and access to Internet resources. They can appear as components of Web sites' Uniform Resource Locators (URL, 'Web-address'), e.g. www.wikipedia.org, electronic mail (e-mail) addresses after the customary '@' separator from the user's name, or as any other part of a syntax that describes an access method to a device or service in an IP network.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name

FAQ - FAQ is an acronym for "Frequently Asked Question(s)". The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Since the acronym originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies; "fak," "faks," "facts," and "F.A.Q." are commonly heard. Depending on usage, the term may refer specifically to a single frequently asked question, or to an assembled list of many questions and their answers.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ

DOWNLOAD - To transfer a file from another system to your own computer system via a modem over telephone or cable lines or a telnet connection using a transfer protocol like xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, or Kermit. Less precisely, it may also refer to a direct transfer from a server to your local terminal over a local area network or an FTP transfer from a remote system to your system

link: http://www.cheap56k.com/glossary/downloa...

Firewall - A firewall is a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall

FTP - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as the Internet.

FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over any TCP-based computer network. A FTP client may connect to a FTP server to manipulate files on that server. As there are many FTP client and server programs available for different operating systems, FTP is a popular choice for exchanging files independent of the operating systems involved.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transf...

GIF - The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_In...

Gopher - Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is to function as an improved form of Anonymous FTP, enhanced with hyperlinking features similar to that of the World Wide Web.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(pro...

For more of your definition of the terms givin, you can search it on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.google.com

good luck!