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Glossary Of Terms

Nanosecond
Time measurement. . There are 1,000,000,000 nanoseconds = one second.

NCSA
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications. NCSA is located at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.NCSA

Nerd
An idiot totally lacking in personal hygiene and social skills.

Net
The hip, short term for the Internet.

Netiquette
An informal set of rules and guidelines designed to smooth Internet interactions. Netiquette breaches often result in the offender being flamed (sent a nasty e-mail message).The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette.

Netizen
Derived from the term citizen, referring to a citizen of the Internet, or someone who uses networked resources. The term connotes civic responsibility and participation.

Netscape
A WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape (tm) browser was originally based on the Mosaic program developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Netscape has grown in features rapidly and is the most popular web browser.Netscape.

Netscape extension
Netscape's enhancements to HTML that are not a part of the HTML 3.2 specification. Frames are an example of a Netscape extension.Netscape Extensions to HTML

Netscape Navigator
The de facto standard Web client program, developed by Mark Andreeson, who first created NCSA Mosaic. Netscape is available for microsoft windows, Macintosh, and Xwindows platforms.Netscape Navigator.

Network
Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources, you have a computer network.

Network news
A UNIX-based (USENET) distributed messaging system with thousands of outgoing discussions, called newsgroups, that cover every topic imaginable. People who subscribe to network news communicate using a messaging system similar to e-mail.

Newbie
A person who is (or acts like they are) new to the Internet. Since this term is almost always used insultingly, most net neophytes try to behave as non-newbie-like as possible. The best way to avoid this label is to bone up on netiquette.

Newsgroup
The name for discussion groups on USENET.
2)
A discussion forum in the network news system.

News reader
A tool that enables you to read about one of the thousands of special interest groups on the Internet.
2)
A program used to read and post network news. Netscape Navigator includes a built-in newsreader.

NFS
Network File System. A protocol designed by Sun Microsystems that allows a computer on a network to use the files and peripherals of another networked computer as if they were local.NFS Protocol Specification

NIC
Networked Information Center. Any office that handles information for a network. The most famous of these on the Internet is the InterNIC, which is where new top level domain names an name servers are registered.
2)NIC
Network Interface Card. A piece of hardware used to connect computers, printers, scanners etc. together, on a network.

NNTP
Network News Transport Protocol. The protocol used by client and server software to carry USENET postings back and forth over a TCP/IP network. If you are using any of the more common software such as Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc. to participate in Newsgroups then you are using an NNTP connection.NNTP Network Working Group.

Node
Any single computer connected to a network.

Notwork
A downed network.

NSF
National Science Foundation. The U.S. government agency responsible for operation of the Internet backbone for the U.S., which is called NSFNET.NSF

Nukeit
To delete the entire contents of a given directory, hard drive, or diskette.

Nymrod
A person who insists on converting every multiword computer term into an acronym.

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