Pronounced "See you, See me," CU-SeeMe is a publicly available videoconferencing program developed at Cornell University. It allows anyone with audio/video capabilities and an Internet connection to videoconference with anyone else with the same capabilities. It also allows multiple people to tie into the same videoconference.

A cute sideways face created by using special characters on the keyboard. Used to express emotions without words. For example, this winking face ;-) indicates "I'm joking", this sad face :-( expresses sadness or "I'm sulking". If this makes no sense, turn your head sideways and look again. Also known as a "smiley& [..]

An Internet search engine at http://www.infoseek.com

Abbreviation for Laughing Out Loud.

The slang commonly used on the Internet.

(abbreviation: AUP) A formal set of rules that governs how a network may be used. For example, the original NSFnet Acceptable Use Policy forbade non-research use by commercial organizations. AUPs sometimes restrict the type of material that can be made publicly available; many AUPs ban the transmission of pornographic material. The enforcement of A [..]

The telephone number used by a subscriber to dial into an Internet Service Provider or online service.

1. Acknowledge. Used to confirm one's presence. An appropriate response to ping. 2. When one computer sends a block of data to another over a network, the second computer sends an acknowledgment code back to indicate that the transfer was successful. If there were errors detected in the transmission, the second computer would send a negative a [..]

A software technology developed by Microsoft that allows programmed capabilities or content to be delivered to Windows-based personal computers via the World Wide Web. Active X is notable for a complete lack of security controls; computer security experts discourage its use over the Internet.

There are three types of addresses in common use on the Internet: email addresses, IP addresses, and Uniform Resource Locators. See also email address, IP address, Uniform Resource Locator.