A hidden suprise in a program or on a Web site. A special feature which is not otherwise made obvious but when "discovered" or clicked on offers something special. This could be in the form of an extra game level or secret area or an animation or a message of some kind. Programmers often "bury" easter eggs in their programs to add a certain extra depth to their program or Web site and to challenge users to find it.
As a grad student studying at the Moore School in 1943, John Eckert met John Mauchly, who spoke about the idea of an electronic version of the Ganged Calculator. Mauchley needed someone to oversee the design and construction of the ENIAC computer, and it was J. Presper Eckert who rose to the challenge.
They completed the first general purpose digital computer in 1946. Later that year, Eckert and Mauchly started a business partnership that become the Eckert-Mauchly Corp. Eckert died on June 3, 1995, from complications relating to leukemia. He was 76.
An electronic publication, similar to an e-zine or zine. An e-journal, however, is typically found in academic circles and is a regularly published journal either published solely in electronic form or made available in electronic form.
electronic magazine - sometimes reffered to as just zine it is an electronic publication or a magazine published in electronic form. An online magazine. There are dozens of e-zines published on a regular basis on the Internet. Topics range from science-fiction-inspired poetry to the angst of living in the digital age, and beyond. SEE ALSO: e-journal.
The connecting of two or more intranets. If you think of an intranet as a company's internal Web site which allows users inside the company to communicate and exchange information, now imagine connecting that virtual space with another company's intranet, thus allowing these two (or more) companies to share resources and communicate over the Internet in their own virtual space. This technology greatly enhances business to business communications.
Companies like Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and VeriSign announced support for a core set of open standards for enabling external networks (extranets). To learn more about this click on the more button below.