An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state, typically used in email or Usenet messages. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons or some other explicit humor indication are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usenet. The lack of verbal and visual cues can otherw [..]

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A "smiley". The official term for this is "emoticon

There are two types of addresses in common use within the Internet. They are email

A name, usually short and easy to remember, that is translated into another name, usually long and difficult to remember. commonly used in the Unix realm to "abbreviate" verbose commands. Common places for storing aliases are the shell configuration file (.cshrc or .profile) and a separate file sources from the configuration file [..]

This organization is responsible for approving U.S standards in many areas, including computers and communications. Standards approved by this organization are often called ANSI standards (e.g., ANSI C is the version of the C language approved by ANSI). ANSI is a member of the ISO.

A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry.

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See: American National Standards Institute

A program that performs a function directly for a user. FTP, mail and Telnet clients