Web Glossary

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NCSA
This is the abbreviation for National center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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Netscape Navigator
Web browser from Netscape.

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Net
Short for Internet.

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Net lingo
The jargon commonly used on the Internet.

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Net surfing
Browsing the World Wide Web, often without a specific goal in mind.

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Netiquette - Network etiquette
Informal code of good manners on the Internet.

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Network
Group of computers that are connected together so that they can share resources and exchange data.

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Newsgroup
Discussion group (on USENET) among people who share a mutual interest. In one particular newsgroup you can find several conversations ("threads") on different (to the newsgroup related) topics. There are thousands and thousands of newsgroups, covering almost every possible subject.

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News server
Computer of your ISP that gathers USENET newsgroups. From this server you can download the newsgroups you're interested in.

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NFS
The abbreviation for Network File System, NFS is a protocol suite developed and licensed by Sun Microsystems that allows different makes of computers running different operating systems to share files and disk storage.

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NIC - Network Information center
Any organisation responsible for supplying information for component networks that comprise the Internet. One example of such an organisation is the InterNIC.

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NNTP - Network News Transport Protocol
Protocol to transport USENET postings over a TCP/IP network.

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Node
Any server connected to a network or to the Internet. A node uses the network as a means of communication and has an address on the network.

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