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GILC (Global internet liberty campaign)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A group that has been laudably vocal in support of individual rights on the Net (though occasionally tending to throw out the baby with the bathwater).
internet

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A global network of networks through which computers communicate by sending information in packets. Each network consists of computers connected by cables or wireless links.
intranet

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A part of the Internet or part of the Web used internally within a company or organization.
IP (Internet protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

The protocol that governs how computers send packets across the Internet. Designed by Vint Cerf and Bob Khan. (IP may also stand for intellectual property; see IPR.)
ISP (Internet service provider)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

The party providing one with connectivity to the Internet. Some users have a cable or some sort of wireless link to their ISP. For others, their computer may dial an ISP by phone and send and receive Internet packets over the phone line; the ISP then forwards the packets over the Internet.
multi-purpose internet mail extensions (MIME)

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

A set of specifications that offers a way to interchange text in languages with different character sets, and multimedia content among many different computer systems that use Internet mail standards.
net

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

Short for Internet .
network byte order

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

byte order in which the most significant byte comes first, then the less significant bytes in descending order of significance ( MSB LSB for two-byte integers, MSB B2 B1 LSB for four-byte integers).
NNTP (Network news transfer protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A protocol that defines how news articles are passed around between computers. Each computer passes an article to any of its neighbors that have not yet got it.
PNG (Portable network graphics)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A format for encoding a picture pixel by pixel and sending it over the Net. A recommendation of the W3C, replacing GIF.
The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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