Web Glossary

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Gateway
An interface that connects two different networks (a LAN can be connected to the Internet through some kind of gateway). An interface that translates between two different protocols is also called a gateway.

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GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
Common graphics file format on the Internet, developed by CompuServe. This format can display only 256 colors at the maximum (8 bits), therefore a GIF is mostly used to show clip-art images (photographic images are usually in the JPEG format). The GIF 89a standard allows multiple images in one file, so you can use a GIF file to show some animation on your Web site (also called an animated gif).

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Gigabyte - Gb
About 1 billion bytes.
1 Kb = 1,024 bytes
1 Mb = 1,024 Kb (= 1,048,576 bytes)
1 Gb = 1,024 Mb (= 1,073,741,824 bytes)

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Gopher
Forerunner of the World Wide Web, invented at the University of Minnesota and named after its mascot. It was the most important tool for finding Internet resources, before the breaktrough of the World Wide Web.

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GUI - Graphical User Interface
Graphical environment of an operating system. The Windows and Macintosh operating systems use a GUI. UNIX and DOS are command line operating systems.

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