Web Definitions
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ISP Host
Short for Internet Service Provider, a company that provides
access to the Internet. For a monthly fee, the service provider
gives you a software package, username, password and access phone
number. Equipped with a modem, you can then log on to the Internet
and browse the World Wide Web and USENET, and send and receive e-mail.
In addition to serving individuals, ISPs also serve large companies,
providing a direct connection from the company's networks to the
Internet. ISPs themselves are connected to one another through Network
Access Points (NAPs).
ISPs are also called IAPs (Internet Access Providers).
Intranet
Intranet is a network based on TCP/IP protocols (an internet)
belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible
only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization.
PHP
Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor;
an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used
to create dynamic Web pages. PHP can perform any task that any CGI
program can do, but its strength lies in its compatibility with
many types of databases. Also, PHP can talk across networks. PHP
was created sometime in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. During mid 1997,
PHP development entered the hands of other contributors. Two of
them, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rewrote the parser from scratch
to create PHP version 3 (PHP3).
SMTP
Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, SMTP is a protocol
for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems
that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from
one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an
e-mail client using either POP or IMAP.
SQL
An abbreviation for Structured Query Language, and pronounced;
see-kwell . SQL is a standardized query language for requesting
information from a database. The original version called SEQUEL
(Structured English QUery Language) was designed by an IBM research
center in 1974 and 1975. SQL was first introduced as a commercial
database system in 1979 by Oracle Corporation.
Status Bar
A horizontal line of information at the bottom or top of an
application window. It reports information about the current state
of the program. The status bar in an Explorer window that shows
how many files a folder contains and how much disk space they take
up.
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