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- blacklist
- A generic name for a list of e-mail addresses or IP addresses that are originating with known spammers. Individuals and enterprises can use blacklists to filter out unwanted e-mails, as most e-mail applications today have filtering capabilities.
- browser
- Software that allows the user to connect to the web. Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape and Mozilla are examples.
- Download
- Saving a file from a server to a local machine.
- Flame
- searing e-mail or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and often personal, terms.
- Inernet
- A global network connecting millions of computers
- Search Engine
- Software that allows the user to find information on the web.
- Troll
- To deliberately post derogatory or inflammatory comments to a community forum, chat room, newsgroup and/or a blog in order to bait other users into responding.
- Upload
- Saving a file from a local machine to a server.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
- World Wide Web
- A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.