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Term |
Definition |
| Natural language interface |
Software that allows users to communicate with the computer in a
conversational language such as English, Spanish, and Japanese. True natural
language interfaces don't work pseudo natural language (PNLI) ones do. PNLI
offers a structured alternative see star trek! |
| Navigator |
A browser produced by Netscape. Once the undisputed market leader,
Navigator's innovation and technical excellence made it the browser of choice
for millions of neophyte Internet users. Netscape's Navigator is one of the two
main web browsers in use today. Netscape provided major improvements in speed
and interface over other browsers, and has also engendered debate by creating
new elements for the HTML language used by Web pages -- but the Netscape
extensions to HTML are not universally supported. |
| Netiquette |
The etiquette on the Internet. |
| 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 |
Netscape corporation produces navigator and web server software.
Netscape provided major improvements in speed and interface over other
browsers, and has also engendered debate by creating new elements for the HTML
language used by Web pages -- but the Netscape extensions to HTML are not
universally supported. |
| Netscape (History) |
A WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape (tm) browser
was originally based on the Mosaic program developed at the National Centre for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Netscape has grown in features rapidly and
is widely recognized as the best and most popular web browser. Netscape
corporation also produces web server software. The main author of Netscape,
Mark Andreessen, was hired away from the NCSA by Jim Clark, and they founded a
company called Mosaic Communications and soon changed the name to Netscape
Communications Corporation. |
| Network |
Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can
share resources, you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks
together and you have an internet. |
| Network audit |
Can mean a check of all software installed with a check against
what is licensed. |
| Newsgroup |
The name for discussion groups on USENET. |
| NIC |
(Networked Information Centre) -- 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. Another
definition: NIC also refers to Network Interface Card which plugs into a
computer and adapts the network interface to the appropriate standard. ISA,
PCI, and PCMCIA cards are all examples of NICs. |
| NLQ |
Near Letter quality - old style printer |
| 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,
Nuntius, Internet Explorer, etc. to participate in Newsgroups then you are
benefiting from an NNTP connection. |
| Node |
Any single computer connected to a network. |
| Normalisation |
A process applied to relational database data. It ensures that the
structure is efficient, consistent, no duplicate data is allowed, the structure
allows flexibility and queries based on more than one table. |
| NSP |
Network Service Provider: the term for an organization offering and
providing value added network services on a telecommunications network |
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