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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T1  ::   A category of leased telephone line service, allowing transfer rates of 1.5 Mbps (megabytes per second) over the Internet. A data communication line capable of transmitting at speeds of 1.54 Mbps. This is a US and Japanese standard for high-speed data transmission.

T3  ::   A US standard data communication line capable of transmitting at speeds of 45 Mbps. Also referred to as a DS3, a T-3 provides the equivalent bandwidth of 28 T-1 circuits.

Tag  ::   An HTML tag is a formatting command written into a document that specifies how it should be formatted. A web browser interprets these tags and outputs the intended command (action).

Task Manager  ::   Powerful Web-based task manager lets you enter tasks each day and provides alerts to keep your projects on time.

TCP/IP  ::   Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The protocol used to connect two or more computers, and it is the foundation of the Internet communication protocol. The Internet is TCP/IP, and usually it is implemented on top of UNIX, except at the final desktop destination, where it might be on a Windows, NT, DOS PC, or Mac. Also, three main protocols sit above TCP/IP: Telnet, FTP and SMTP.

Telnet  ::   A protocol for logging onto remote computers from anywhere on the Internet.

Terabyte  ::   1000 gigabytes.

Text Link  ::   A word (or a string of words) in hypertext that is not accompanied by a graphical image. Connects one area of a web page with another area or with another web page.

Threads  ::   An ongoing message based conversation on a single subject. In a discussion group or mailing list, a message thread is a series of e-mail responses to a particular subject strung together as in "following the thread".

TIFF  ::   Target Image File Format - a popular graphic image file format.

Title tag  ::   An HTML tag with text describing a specific Web page. The title tag should contain strategic keywords for the page and be constructed following specific guidelines. The title tag is important because it usually becomes the text link to the page found in search engine listings, and because search engines pay special attention to the title text when indexing pages. Having keywords in the Title tag of a page can significantly increase the search engine ranking of the page for those keywords.

Traffic  ::   Amount of information being transferred. The number of visitors to a Web page or site. The number of visitors, hits, page accesses, etc., over a given time period. As a general term, it describes data traveling around the Internet.

Transaction  ::   Taking orders (usually via a secure procedure) and processing credit card transactions.

Transfer Domain Names ::   Network Solutions can accommodate all types of domain name transfers, but it is important to note that the term transfer is often defined differently by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), registrars, and customers. The three most frequent types of transfers are: 1) Transferring your Network Solutions registered domain name to another provider's Domain

Transfer Name Server (DNS). 2) Transferring your domain name registration within Network Solutions. 3) Transferring your domain name registration to Network Solutions.

Transparent GIF  ::   A type of GIF image where one color, usually the background of the image, has been selected to appear as transparent.

Trojan Horse  ::   A computer program which carries within itself a means to allow the program's creator access to the system using it.

TRUSTe  ::   Organization which provides branded symbols of trust on the Internet.

Trusted Feeds  ::   This express indexing service offered by Altavista enables database driven and other types of Web sites to target multiple, pertinent keyword phrases.

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