Developed by DigiCash and the Mark Twain Bank ecash is the abilty to use real money in a electronic purchasing system over the World Wide Web. The process involves you sending a check to Mark Twain Bank which in turn sends you software which gives you access to the Ecash Mint where you draw funds to your hard drive for use when purchasing goods and services on the Internet. SEE ALSO: digital cash.
A program used to write and edit HTML code.
A type of Internet domain assigned to URLs which are university or other educational institutions (for example, www.pepperdine.edu). There is also .com, .gov, .net, and .org. SEE ALSO: country codes.
A virtual shopping mall where you can browse and buy products and services online.
Editing MACroS - The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced, self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor". It has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various hackers, and versions exist that run under most major operating systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by Stallman and now called "GNU EMACS" or GNUMACS, runs principally under UNIX. It includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail; many hackers spend up to 80% of their tube time inside it. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA EMACS, UniPress EMACS, Montgomery EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS.
Some EMACS versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and baroque for their taste, and expand the name as `Escape Meta Alt Control Shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with bucky bits. Other spoof expansions include `Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping', `Eventually `malloc()'s All Computer Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow'. See also vi.
electronic mail - Electronically transmitted messages. Linked by high speed data connections that cross international boundaries, e-mail lets you compose messages and transmit them in seconds to one or more recipients anywhere in the world. Some of the more popular e-mail programs are Eudora and Pegasus as well as those found with an on-line service. Old fashioned regular mail is tended to be called "snail mail". SEE ALSO: e-mail address.
Acronyms for commonly used phrases that one would otherwise type. Some of the most popular ones are:
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A hyperlink that is incorporated into a line of text.
An Internet suite from The Wollongong Group which incorporates some of the latest technology into a Web browser, FTP, e-mail , and newsreader program. emissary also features an exclusive "drag and drop" capability allowing users to download a file into any directory of their choosing. There is also an e-mail and newsgroup encoding and decoding of documents.
Mock HTML tags, such as <smile>, <smirk> used in WWW-related e-mail and newsgroups in place of ASCII emoticons. For example: "<flame>Someone tell that jerk to shut up, I'm sick of his vapid whining!</flame>."
A symbol to compensate for the absence of nonverbal clues when communicating on the Internet. For example <g> signifies a "grin", :} or :-} a "smile", when inserted in the text of an e-mail message and alerts the reader not to take it seriously. SEE ALSO: e-mail shorthand
A way of making data unreadable to everyone except the receiver. An increasingly common way of sending credit card numbers over the Internet when conducting commercial transactions. SEE ALSO: PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
Encapsulated Postscript - A type of graphics file written in the PostScript language.
A widespread networking scheme rated at 10 Mbs (megabits per second).
The #1 e-mail application on the Internet. It is manufactured and distributed by Qualcomm Enterprises. The Eudora e-mail application is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Newton users. Eudora Pro is the commercial version and includes special features that are not in Eudora Light, the freeware version.
This is the program that is launched or used by Web browsers such as Mosaic for presenting graphics, audio, video, VRML, and other multimedia found on the Internet. Sometimes referred to as helper applications.
Usually when you initially setup your browser you configure what external viewers you want to use by associating a program with a file type or extension. This way the browser knows what to do when these files are "clicked on" by the user.
The characters after the dot in a file's name are considered it's extension. This is used to determine how the file is formatted and viewed. For example a file named netlingo.html means that the file is coded in HTML and therefore must be viewed with a compatible program such as a Web browser in order to see it properly. On the Internet you will come across many different file extensions such as .dcr, .mov, .avi and .au. In order to properly handle these files your browser must be configured to recognize these extensions. SEE ALSO: MIME.