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Website -Website Design -Domain Names -Advertising Tips -Hosting -DNS -IIS -HTML -XHTML -PHP -MySQL -Search Engine Optimization -Forum Software Programming -Assembly -C/C++ -C# -Delphi -Java -Visual Basic -VB.net -Programming Books General Computer -Windows -Linux -Unix -Computer Hardware -Computer Vocabulary -System Maintenance Other Software -MailEnable -XVI32 -Olly Debugger -TextPad | Computer Vocabulary In this section you will find a glossary of computer terms and their definitions. IIS - Internet Information Systems - is a webserver for Windows Computers. HTML - HyperText Markup Language - VB - Visual Basic a RAD computer language O/S - Operating System - software that runs all your applications on your computer. Linux - Open source GPL operating system Search Engine - such as Google, Yahoo, is an index of known internet, used to find information SEO - Search Engine Optimization - to optimize your website for search engines. RAM - Random Access Memory - is the amount of storage the computer can access at one time. BIOS - Basic Input Output System - used to control all the hardware in the computer. ROM - Read Only Memory - used for BIOS chips Bit - either zero or one. Byte - is seven bits KB - Kilobyte - 1000 bytes MB - Megabyte - 1000 Kilobytes GB - Gigabyte - 1000 Megabytes TB - Terabyte - is 1000 gigabytes DNS - Domain Name Server - translates a hostname to an ip address STMP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - used to send email. FTP - File Transfer Protocol - used to send files over the internet bit by bit. CGI - Common Gateway Interface - used for server side processing on servers. PNG - Portable Network Graphics - an excellent image format for storing images, supports transparent graphics. GIF - Graphics Interchange format - images are small but only support a limited amount of colors. Supports animated files. BMP - bitmap - stores an entire picture with no image loss JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group - lesser quality that PNG maybe a little smaller.
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