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The first part of your e-mail address on the AOL network is referred to as Screen Name. For example if ZolaOnAOL@aol.com is your e-mail address, then ZolaOnAol is your screen name.
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Internet search engines help users find web pages on a given subject. The search engines maintain databases of web sites and use programs to collect information, which is then indexed by the search engine. Google and Alta Vista are examples of search engines.
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A chunk of information (often stored as a text file) that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure connection.
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Search Engine Optimization: A process of arranging a web site's content to obtain high rankings in various search engines as well as choosing the proper keywords for a page's meta tags.
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A server is a computer that handles requests for data, email, file transfers, and other network services from other computers.
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A software program that corrects known bugs, problems, or adds new features. Companies that produce large applications such as Microsoft and their Windows NT-based operating systems typically release a service pack when the number of individual patches to the application becomes too large.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: A protocol used to send and receive email.
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To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities.
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A device that splits and reassembles telephone signals from different frequencies.
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Software that gathers information about Internet users without their knowledge or consent and delivers that information to advertisers or others who have access to the information. Users can get spyware in their systems by downloading certain programs or in the form of a virus.
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Service Set Identifier: It is a 32-character identifier which is used in wireless networking to separate different networks. All devices within the same network must have the same SSID.
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Secure Socket Layer: A commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission over the Internet.
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Short for Synchronization. Two devices are said to be in sync when they are locked together with respect to time, so that the events generated by each of them will always fall into predicable time relationships.
