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| ICQ |
An Internet chat and messaging system. |
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| ICS |
ICS provides networked computers with the ability to share a single connection to the Internet.
If you have multiple computers, you can use ICS to allow you and others on your local area network (LAN) to perform different tasks simultaneously. For example, one person can send and receive e-mail messages, while another person downloads a file, and another person browses the Internet. You can also gain access to your corporate e-mail accounts from a client computer while others on your LAN cannot. |
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| Interactive |
Back-and-forth dialog between the user and a computer. |
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| Interactive TV |
Two-way communications between the TV viewer and service providers. Although various experiments have taken place throughout the 1980s, interactive TV has yet to take off. The closest thing to it on a widescale basis is pay TV, which dedicates an entire channel to the same movie so that the viewer can begin to watch it with reasonably short notice. |
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| Internet |
The worldwide network of computers communicating via an agreed upon set of Internet protocol. Odds are that if you are reading this document, you are probably on the Internet right now (just in case you didn't know). |
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| InterNIC |
Internet Network Information Center. The InterNIC is the entity that keeps track of the domain names. Most domain names are registered with the InterNIC. |
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| Interstitial |
A World-Wide Web page that appears before the expected content page. Interstitials can be used for advertising (intermercial, transition ad) or to confirm that the user is old enough to view the requested page. |
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| Intranet |
A network inside an organization that uses the same kinds of software and protocols as the Internet. This may be linked to the outside world and called an Extranet. |
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| IP Address |
Internet Protocol Address - every computer on the Internet has a unique identifying number, like 192.168.5.1 |
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| IRC |
Internet Relay Chat - the system allowing Internet users to conduct online text based communication with one or more other users. |
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| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network - a system of all digital, high bandwidth telephone lines allowing for the simultaneous delivery of audio, video and data. Data travels at 128K bps. |
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| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - ISO was founded in 1946. It is an international federation of national standards organizations from over 100 countries. ISO is a word, not an abbreviation, derived from the Greek isos, "equal", found in terms such as "isometric". It was created in an attempt to avoid creating even more abbreviations for the members' national languages. |
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| ISO 9660 |
A widely used file format for CD ROM. The ISO 9660 (formerly High Sierra) standard defines a directory structure which has been accepted by the International Standards Organization. This standard, supported by Microsoft in the MS/DOS Extensions, allows ISO 9660 formatted CD ROM discs to be read like a DOS write-protected hard disk. |
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| ISOC |
The Internet Society is a non-governmental international organization to coordinate the Internet technologies and applications (http://www.isoc.org) |
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| ISP |
Internet Service Provider - the company which provides you with a connection to the Internet via either a Dial-up Connection or a Direct Connection. |
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| IT |
IT is the acronym for Information Technology |
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