An operating system invented in 1969 at AT&T Bell Laboratiories that was made available to researchers and students in 1973. It was used to develop the Internet's communication software protocols.
hacker jargon definitionAn interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C, is considered a co-author of the system. The turning point in UNIX's history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972--1974, making it the first source-portable operating system. UNIX subsequently underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. By 1991, UNIX had become the most widely used multiuser general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people consider this the most important victory yet of hackerdom over industry opposition.
To copy a file from your computer to a server or host system. The reverse process of download.
Uniform Resource Locator - Describes the location and access method of a resource on the Internet, for example, the URL http://www.netlingo.com describes the type of access method being used (http) and the server location which hosts the Web site (www.netlingo.com). All web sites have URLs. One could say a URL is what a telephone number is to a telephone or a street address is to a house. Although Web site URLs are sometimes long and hard to read let alone remember, browsers like Netscape have a bookmark feature which gives you the opportunity to save the location (URL) of Web sites you want to return to.
Often referred to as simply "newsgroups" is a distributed bulletin board system supported mainly by UNIX machines. Originally implemented in 1979--1980 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott, and Steve Daniel at Duke University, it has swiftly grown to become international in scope and is now probably the largest decentralized information utility in existence. As of early 1993, it hosted well over 1200 newsgroups and an average of 40 megabytes (the equivalent of several thousand paper pages) of new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and flamage every day.
Usenet groups can be "unmoderated" (anyone can post) or "moderated" (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results). Some newsgroups have parallel mailing lists for Internet people with no netnews access, with postings to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed Internet mailing lists) are distributed as `digests', with groups of postings periodically collected into a single large posting with an index.
The name by which you or someone else is known by on the Internet. Used when logging into an access provider or when entering a member's only area on the Web.
UNIX to UNIX Encode - A tool for transferring files through e-mail.
A method for converting binary information into ascii. It can be used for posting to Usenet and or e-mailing with non MIME compliant mail readers.
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UUCODE for Windows - Easily encodes and decodes files.
UNIX to UNIX copy - A tool for transferring files, sending mail, and executing remote commands that was invented in 1978 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Mike Lesk.