Web Glossary

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Unix
Multi-user computer operating system. The Internet and the World Wide Web grew up on Unix, and these days Unix is still the most common operating system for servers on the Internet.

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Upload
Sending files from your computer to another computer through the Internet. For example, sending email is uploading a file to the SMTP server of your ISP. When you have a personal home page, you must upload your HTML files to the Web server that hosts your Web site.

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URL - Uniform Resource Locator
Address of any resource on the World Wide Web.
The URL of our home page is: http://www.touchstone-it.com/

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Usenet
World-wide decentralized distribution system of newsgroups. Newsgroups (discussion groups would be a more accurate name) cover almost every human proclivity. No one can really count the number of newsgroups because not all Usenet machines are connected to the Internet, however, there are at least 15,000 newsgroups available through the Internet.

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User ID
Unique identifier that you must enter every time you want to access a particular service on the Internet. The user ID is always accompanied by a password.

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Uuencoding - Unix to Unix Encoding
Method for converting binary files (non-textual files) to ASCII files (text), so you can also send graphic pictures to your friends via email.

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