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100baset

10baset

Access

Active Channel

Activex

Address

ADN

ADO

Ads

ADSL

AIFF

Aliased Nameservers

Anonymous FTP

Anonymous remailer

ANSI

Apache

Applet

Application Service Provider

Archie

Archive

ARJ

ARPA

Arpanet

ASCII

ASP

ATM

Attachment

AU

Authentication

AVI

B Channel

Backbone

Bandwidth

Banner

Baud

Binary

Binary mode

Bit

Body

Bookmark

Bot

BRB

BRI

Bridge

Broadcast

Browser

Browser sniffing

BTW

C

Cable Modem

CCIT

CDF

CERN

Certificate

CGI

Cgi-bin

CHAP

Client

Client/Server

Clustering

Coldfusion

Co-location

Com

Command-line interface

Control Panel

Cookie

CPU

Crawler

CSS

D Channel

Data transfer

Database

Dedicated hosting

Dedicated Server

DES

DHCP

Dial up

Diesel Generator

DNS

Domain name

DSL

E-Business

EIA

E-Mail

Encryption

Ethernet

Extranet

FAQ

Fast Ethernet

FCC

FDDI

Fibre Optic Cable

Filename extension

Filtering

Finger

Firewall

Flame

Flash

FPU

Frame Relay

Frontpage

Frontpage Extensions

FTP

Ftpmail

FYI

Gateway

GIF

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabyte

Graphical User Interface

Hexadecimal color-notation system

Hit

Home Page

Host

Hosting

HTML

HTTP

Hub

Hyperlink

Hypertext

IEEE

IGMP

IIS

Image Map

IMAP

IMHO

IMO

Internet

Internet backbone

Internic

Intranet

IP

IP Address

IP packet

IPX

IRC

ISDN

ISO

ISP

ITU

JAR

Java

Java Servlet

Javascript

JDBC

Jpeg

Jpg

Jscript

JSP

JVM

Kbps

Kermit

Kilobyte

LAN

Leased line

Line provisioning

Link

Linux

Load Balancing

Login

LOL

Lossless

Lossy

LZW compression

MAC

MAC Address

Mailing List

Mailserver

Mainframe Computer

Managed hosting

Mbps

Megabyte

Mhz

Microsoft Access

Microsoft SQL Server

MIME

Mirror site

Miva Merchant

Modem

Mov

MP3

Mpeg

Mpg

Msql

Multicast

Mysql

Name server

Netiquette

Netscape Communications

Network

Network Management

Newsgroup

Newsreader

NIC

NNTP

NOC

OC

OC-1

OC-12

OC-24

OC-3

OC-48

ODBC

Offline

Online

Operating system

OSI

Packet switching

Page

PAP

Parking

Peer-to-Peer network

Perl

PHP

PKZIP or PKUNZIP

Plug-in

POP

Port

PPP

PRI

Propagation

Protocol

PSTN

Python

RAID

Raw Logs

Reseller

RJ-11

RJ-45

ROFL

Router

RSA

S/MIME

Scalability

Scripting Language

Search engine

Search form

Search indexer

Self-extracting Archive

Server

Service Provider

Session

Shared hosting

Shopping cart

SHTTP

Signature

SLIP

Smileys

SMTP

Snail Mail

SNMP

Spam

Spider

SPX

SQL

SSH

SSI

SSL

Static

STP

Streaming

Subdomain

Sun

Surfing

Switch

T1

T1 Connection

T3

Tape back-up

Tcl

TCP

TCP/IP

Telnet

Terabyte

TIA

TLD

Traceroute

Traffic

Twisted Pair

Unicode

Unix

UPS

URL

Usenet

UTP

Uuencode

Vbscript

Viewer

Virtual host

Virtualization

Virus

VPN

VPS

W3C

WAN

WAV

Web

Webmaster

Whois

Windows NT/2000

WWW

XML

XMODEM

YMMV

YMODEM

Zip

ZMODEM

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