Negative Acknowledgement - When a modem receives a data packet, it sends back a signal to the sending modem: either an ACK signaling all is well, or a NAK if some of the data is missing or corrupt. This negative acknowledgement acts as a request to resend the data.
To move around on the World Wide Web by following hypertext paths from document to document on different computers.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications - has evolved into a scientific research center built around a national services facility. NCSA is developing and implementing a national strategy to create, use, and transfer advanced computing and communication tools and information technologies. These advances serve the center's diverse set of constituencies in the areas of science, engineering, education, and business. The NCSA is responsible for the development of the Mosaic World Wide Web browser.
An Internet subject index with links to web, USENET, and FTP resources, Their media goal is to provide products and services to make Internet using easier.
A Web server usage analysis program for Windows NT/95. Used for analyzing and viewing Web site usage information. Filling the reporting needs of Internet or Intranet Web sites with low to moderate traffic, net.Analysis Desktop offers features like detailed browser and geographic reports and the ability to build your own queries. A stand-alone solution, with a built-in FoxPro(TM) relational database, net.Analysis Desktop makes it easy to view long-term trends in site usage by reporting across multiple log files. NOTE: This program is for more advanced users and webmasters who have access to the access-logs for their Web site.
NetBuddy keeps a list of Internet web locations which you want it to watch. Then it automatically checks these sites at a frequency you decide (once a minute, every two hours, etc.). If any of the sites have changed (have new information), NetBuddy lights up that site in its list to let you know something's different there.
Net Nanny is intended for parents, guardians and teachers who wish to stop children from accessing pornographic and other undesirable material, while at the same time preventing the children's personal information - names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. - from being circulated on the Internet.
One who has been online since the beginning, someone who knows all and who has done all.
Somebody sufficiently opinionated with plenty of time on his hands to regularly post in dozens of different USENET newsgroups, and whose presence is known to thousands of people.
Derogatory term for those who would impose their standards on other users of the Net.
A multimedia player for Windows that was developed by Duplexx Software Inc of Salem, Massachusetts . Net Toob provides a single, easy to use utility, which plays back all the digital video standards, as well as real-time audio and video via the Internet. Net Toob enables playback of MPEG-1, Video for Windows (AVI), Quicktime for Windows (MOV), and will soon offer an upgrade to enable real-time MPEG-1 audio and video via the'Net. This same utility offers video screen saver capabilities, so users can enjoy their saved videos as screen savers. For a more detailed look at Net Toob features click on the more button below.
The rules of etiquette that govern online interaction on the Internet.
The dominating World Wide Web browser. The program also allows for Gopher, FTP, and Telnet access as well as e-mail and newsgroup retrieval and management. Many companies use Netscape server software to create Web pages and are therefore written to be best displayed using Netscape Navigator. The program is available for all platforms and is also the smoothest and fastest when it comes to displaying graphics.
Somebody new to the Internet or to computers in general.
ISPs get their newsgroups from different newsfeeds, or news sources, by transferring them over the Internet, or other networks.
A part of the Internet which allows users to "post" and "reply to" messages from other users. A discussion forum similar to that found on local BBSs. Broken into many different subjects (approx. 25,000) newsgroup titles usually begin with a three or four letter prefix followed by a ".", alt., soc., comp., misc., rec., and sci. just to name a few.
A computer program for reading and posting articles to newsgroups. Some Web browsers like Netscape Navigator have the abilty to read and post articles in addition to browsing the Web.
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.
Networked Information Center - Generally, any office that handles information for a network. The most famous of these on the Internet is the InterNIC, which is where new domain names are registered.
Network Operations Center - NOC is the organization responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Internet's component networks.
Any single computer connected to a network.
National Research and Education Network - NREN is an effort to combine the networks operated by the U.S. government into a single high-speed network.
The more aware/paranoid Net users believe that the National Security Agency has a super-powerful computer assigned to reading everything posted on the Net. They will jokingly refer to this line eater in their postings.
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface - Netscape's API was designed as a more robust and efficient replacement for CGI.
National Science Foundation - An Independent agency of the Federal government that was established in 1950 by an Act of Congress. The agency's mission is to promote the progress of science and engineering.
Network Terminator 1 - An NT-1 is an interface box that converts ISDN data into something a PC can understand (and vice versa). It works a little like a cable TV descrambler for ISDN signals, and is often built in to ISDN adapters.