Acquaintance: Knowledge of a person acquired by a relationship less intimate than friendship or a relationship based on such knowledge.
Anti-virus software: A software program designed to identify and remove a known or potential computer virus.
Appropriate: Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
Attachment: A file attached to an e-mail message. Many e-mail systems only support sending text files as e-mail. If the attachment is a binary file or formatted text file (such as an MS-Word document), it must be encoded before it is sent and decoded once it is received.
Bandwidth: Limited amount of data information that can be carried at any one time.
Belligerent: Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
Bibliography: A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.
Browser: Software program that allows Internet users to interact with, navigate or “browse” parts of the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web.
Buddy list: A function of most instant messaging programs, buddy lists enable users to know when people they have put on their lists are online. This makes it easier to contact people with whom users converse frequently.
Bulletin boards (Message boards): Public areas where a message or comment can be posted for other board members to read and reply to.
CD-ROMs: Compact Disc Read Only Memory. The CD holds data that only plays back information and does not record or save information.
Chat: A type of Internet-based application that enables groups of people to get together in a chat room and converse in real time through typewritten messages.
Chat room: A virtual room, or gathering place, for users with shared interests to congregate and converse. A user enters a chat room under a screen name and types a message that is displayed to the other members in the chat room. Chat room membership is anonymous.
Citizenship: Membership in a community
Code: Written instructions in a computing language.
Community: Society as a whole; the public.
Consequence: Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition.
Counterfeit: To make a copy of, usually with the intent to defraud; forge.
Copyright: The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
Cyber space: General term, coined by science fiction writer William Gibson in his fantasy novel ‘Neuromancer’, to describe the world connected by computers and the society that gathers around them. It refers to the virtual community on the Internet.
Cyber sex: Engaging in a sexual discourse with another via instant messaging or chat.
Dangerous: Being able or likely to do harm.
Deceive: To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
Deception: A ruse; a trick.
Destructive: Designed or tending to disprove or discredit.
Download: To copy data (usually an entire file) from a main source to a peripheral device. The term is often used to describe the process of copying a file from an online service or bulletin board service (BBS) or website to one’s own computer.
Email: Abbreviation for electronic mail. Allows one to send messages from their computer through the Internet to one or more recipients.
Ethics: The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person.
File Extensions: A collection of data or information that has a name, called the filename. Almost all information stored in a computer must be in a file. There are many different types of files: data files, text files, program files, directory files, and so on. Different types of files store different types of information.
Footnote: A note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text.
FW: Abbreviation for Forward. FW is an indicator located in the subject line of an email that lets the recipient know the message they received has been redirected to them from another user.
Hacker: A person that uses the Internet to break into a computer or computer network without authorization, often causing damage.
Hacking: using one’s skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network.
Hardware: The physical machinery: computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.
Harassment: To be annoyed repeatedly, for example a net user cursing at, following, or mocking another Internet user.
Hate mail: Harassing and/or threatening electronic mail.
Inappropriate: Not suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
Infringement: A violation, as of a law, regulation, or agreement; a breach.
Internet: A worldwide network of interconnected computer networks. No government agency or other central authority controls its use.
Instant messaging (IM): A real time Internet communication application. While chat involves many users simultaneously, IM is one-to-one.
Internet Service Provider (ISP): An ISP is a vendor who provides Internet access to its customers.
Looting: To take as spoils; steal.
Malicious: Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful.
Netiquette: A combination of the words “network” and “etiquette,” this is the informal code of Internet conduct.
Obscene: Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty. Parental controls: Special features or software packages that enable adults to control the online activities of children.
Password: A secret word or series of letters and numbers that one must use to gain access to an online service, the Internet, or to modify certain software such as parental controls.
Plagiarism: A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.
Piracy: The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material.
Pornography: Graphics and text that are sexual in nature, not intended for minors and illegal in some places.
Posting: Sending a message to an online message board to be viewed by the members of the board.
Program: Another term for software, it is basically a list of instructions (written in a programming language) that tells a computer how to execute certain functions and perform tasks in a specific way.
Programmer: A person who designs, codes, tests and documents a computer program or Web site.
Relationship: A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other.
Reputable: Having a good reputation; honorable.
Search engine: A software program that allows one to perform searches on the Internet based on words and phrases.
Software: A computer program.
SPAM: Also known as Internet junk mail, SPAM is mass-mailing (or mass-posting) of messages that are irrelevant to the groups and recipients who receive them. SPAM is considered a serious breach of Netiquette.
Stalking: To obsessively pursue a person from place to place on the Internet, attempting to find out personal information.
Steganography: The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.
Suggestive: Tending to convey something improper or indecent.
Trojan horse: Malicious code that appears harmless but, when executed, can launch a virus or worm.
URL: Defined as Universal/Uniform Resource Locator, is another name for a Web address.
Virus: Executable code that infects or attaches itself to other executable code to perform a malicious or mischievous act such as erasing/editing files, locking up systems, or sending out e-mails.
Website: A collection of “pages” or files on the World Wide Web that are linked together and managed by a company, institution or individual.
World Wide Web (WWW): Commonly called the Web, it is a large network of Internet servers that provides hypertext and other services that allow one to browse through a variety of linked resources.
Worm: A self-propagating virus embedded in a file.
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