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Glossary Of Terms

E-1
Roughly the European equivalent of a T1 or a PRI, but with 30 data-bearing channels.

E-cash
See Electronic money.

E-dress
Your online address.

E-form
See Electronic form.

E-mail
Electronic Mail. Messages, usually text, sent from one person to another via computer.

Electronic form
An electronic form that is filled out by a user and is sent over a network. E-forms are usually found on Web pages.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The EFF is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest ot protect privacy, freedom of expression, and access to public resources and information.EFF.

Electronic money
A monetary system designed to be used over the net or stored on cards. For example: The Royal Bank in Canada calls them MONDEX cards. Not very successful.

Element
The basic structural unit of an HTML document. HTML uses opening and closing tags to define elements. The browser performs a different formatting routine depending on the elements it encounters. For example, paragraphs, tables, and forms are all elements, but each is processed differently.

Embed
To insert information that was created in one document into another document. The embedded object can be edited directly from within the document. to embed' you must be using applications that support object linking and embedding.

Embedding data
To store data from a source document within a target document.

Embedded object
Information created in one document and inserted into another document. Embedded objects can be edited from within the destination document.

Emoticon
See smiley.

EMS memory
See Expanded memory.

Emulation mode
A mode in which a device such as a printer can emulate the actions of a different device.

Encryption
The scrambling of a message or file so that it can't be read by anyone except the intended receiver.

Enter course
Online Sex.

Entity name
An HTML code that lets you insert special characters into your Web pages (such as © , ® and Æ). Entity names are easier to use than character references, but aren't supported by all browsers.

Error detection
A process used during file transfer to discover discrepancies between transmitted and received data. some file transfer programs only detect errors; others detect errors and then attempt to fix them in a process called error correction.

Ethernet
A common method of networking computers in a. Ethernet will handle 10M baud and can be used with almost any kind of computer.Free Ethernet Deployment Guide.

Eudora
The most widely used e-mail system.EUDORA.BetterYet Andrew Starr's (unofficial) Eudora Site.

Excite
A popular Internet search engine.Excite.

Execute
Start a computer process, program, or application.

Expanded memory
Memory in addition to conventional memory that some applications use. Expanded memory is an older standard being replaced by the use of extended memory.

Expanded-memory emulator
A program that converts extended memory into expanded memory.

Extended memory
Memory beyond 1 megabyte. Windows uses extended memory to manage and run applications. Extended memory typically is not available to non-windows applications or MS-DOS.

Extended-memory manager
A program that prevents different applications from using the same part of extended memory at the same time.

Extension
The period and characters at the end of a filename. An extension usually identifies the kind of information a file contains. For example .html A Web document.

External Viewer
A program used by Netscape or Internet Explorer cannot handle a particular file type internally. For example, .ps or postscript files. When You retrieve a .ps file it will pass the file to a postscript viewer and the viewer will display the file. External image
A Web page image that the browser can't handle, so it passes the buck to a graphics program that displays the image in a separate window. See also inline image.

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