Glossary of Terms

In an effort to provide our clients with a better understanding of the more commonly used Internet terminology, we have created this Glossary of Internet Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms.

 

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LAN  ::   An acronym for Local Area Network, LAN refers to a local network that connects computers located on the same floor or in the same building or nearby buildings.

Lead  ::   A word used to describe a customer's contact information. Many affiliate programs reward their affiliates for their leads instead of their sales.

Legacy System  ::   The existing system in use by a financial institution for processing payment card transactions.

Link  [Hyperlink]  ::   An element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow the link. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems, including the World Wide Web.

Link Popularity  ::   A measure of how "popular" a web page is on the Internet as measured by the number of inbound links pointing to your web page. Link popularity

Linking  ::   Placing a link to another Web page (usually on another Web site) on one of your own Web pages.

Links  ::   URLs placed within a Web page so that when they're clicked on the browser is served with a different Web page, often on a completely different Web site.

Listservers (Listserv)  ::   A software program used to manage e-mail discussion groups.

Load Balancing  ::   Distributing data across a network of servers in order to ensure that a single Web server does not get overloaded with work, thereby affecting performance.

Log File  ::   A file maintained on a server showing where all files accessed are stored. Log file analysis reveals the visitors to your site, where they came from, and which queries were used to access your site. WebTrends is an example of log file analysis software.

Logfile Access  ::   This allows you to view the log files for performance as well as for the number of visitors to your site. Log files can be used for reporting purposes.

Login Name  ::   A login name is the account name used to access a computer system. Also called user ID or user name, it is a way people identify themselves to their online service or Internet access provider. See also ' User ID .'

Looksmart  ::   Often confused as a search engine, Looksmart is actually considered a directory. Looksmart changed from directory submission to a pay per click model.

Lossy  ::   A term coined by graphics programmers to refer to a technique of shrinking file sizes by giving away some precision of detail. JPEG is the most common of these. By reducing the so-called quality of a picture when you save it, you can make the file size smaller. Many pictures can take a lot of loss of fine detail before it becomes noticeable on a Web page.

Lurk  ::   To hang around a Newsgroup without participating. A person who is lurking is just listening to the discussion. Lurking is encouraged for beginning users who wish to become acquainted with a particular discussion before joining in.

Lycos  ::   One of the top 15 search engines.

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