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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UCE  ::   Unsolicited Commercial e-mail, or another term for SPAM.

Unicode  ::   Is a multilingual encoding mechanism. It that includes every single character for all languages, thus making it easier to process and display characters from more than one language (e.g. English and Japanese).

Unique Users  ::   Individuals, often identified through the use of cookies, IP addresses, or passwords, who visit a site. Compare with "Visitors".

Unique Visitor  ::   The number of visitors who access a Web site within a given time period (usually 24 hours) from a single IP address. If you visit the same Web site three times within a 24 hour period, your visits only count as one unique visit for that day.

UNIX  ::   A powerful operating system used on the backbone machines of the Internet. World Wide Web servers frequently run on UNIX. Pronounced yoo-niks, a popular multi-user, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. Created by just a handful of programmers, UNIX was designed to be a small, flexible system used exclusively by programmers.

Upload  ::   Act of copying a file from a local computer to another remote computer (server) for wider distribution. Programs such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) are designed to help users upload and download materials.

UPP (Universal Payment Preamble)  ::   Internet payment negotiation protocol that is an extension to HTT.

URL  ::   Abbreviation for Universal Resource Locator. URL gives a standard address for web resources. Every individual web page, for example, has its own unique URL which permits the browser to find that page. The browser reads the URL and goes to the page, wherever in the world it is located. The beginning of the address indicates the type of resource e.g. http: for Web pages, ftp: for file transfers, or mailto: for e-mail addresses. (ie http://studiodog.com)

Usenet  ::   Short for User's Network. The collection of the thousands of bulletin boards residing on the Internet. Each bulletin board contains discussion groups, or newsgroups, dedicated to a myriad of topics. Messages are posted and responded to by readers either as public or private emails.

User  ::   See Visitor.

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

UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX Command Protocol)  ::   This was initially a program run under the Unix operating system that allowed one Unix system to send files to another Unix system via dialup phone lines. Today, the term is more commonly used to describe the large international network, which uses the UUCP protocol to pass news and electronic mail.

UUdecoding  ::   The restoration of uuencoded data to its original form.

UUencode (Unix to Unix Encoding)  ::   A process used to convert binary files (graphics) to ASCII (text) so that they can be transmitted across the Internet via an e-mail attachment. The new WinZip utility features built-in support Uuencode.

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