Glossary - The Computer Book - N

MIME:
Multiple Internet Mail Extensions. This is standard way of encoding attachment to mails so that the users of different email programs can still send each other files without encountering any problems converting them.

MODEM:
The magic box tricks that turns your computer's data into a signal that can be sent over a phone line. Also converts incoming signals the other way.

MULTIMEDIA:
Any combination of pictures, words, sound and animation is know as Multimedia.
 

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NETIQUETTE:
The etiquette to be observed when communicating on the Net.

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR:
The web browser that was responsible for making the web usable. It once had 80% of the market shares, but that was before Microsoft Corporation took notice of the Net.

NEWSFEED:
Regular news updates that come from reliable sources (such as news agencies) about a specified topic.

NEWSGROUPS:
Public discussion groups where people can read messages posted by others, contribute their own ideas and talk to like-minded people. There are thousands of newsgroups on the Net, covering a multitude of subjects.

NEWSREADERS:
These enable you to read messages from and send messages to newsgroups. Watch out for Free Agent (for windows) and New-Shopper (for Macs).

to be continued...
 

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