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UDP (User Datagram Protocol) -- One of the protocols for data transfer that is part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols. UDP is a “stateless” protocol in that UDP makes no provision for acknowledgement of packets received.
 
UNIX A powerful operating system used on the backbone machines of the Internet. World Wide Web servers frequently run on UNIX.
 
Upload To copy a file from a local computer connected to the Internet to a remote computer. Opposite is download.
 
URL Uniform Resource Locator - the method by which Internet sites are addressed. An example would be "http//www.squareone.com", the address of a home page.
 
Usenet World-wide decentralized distribution system of newsgroups. Newsgroups (discussion groups would be a more accurate name) cover almost every human proclivity. No one can really count the number of newsgroups because not all Usenet machines are connected to the Internet, however, there are at least 40,000 newsgroups available through the Internet.
 
User ID User identification - what you need to log into a remote computer system.
 
UU encode An encoding method for non-ACSII data. (UNIX to UNIX encoding).
 
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