BBS
Bulletin Board System, early forms of online social networking in which user posts could
be viewed asynchronously by other members of the bulletin board community.
blog
A publicly accessible series of posts on the Web. Blogs often reflect the views of the
author and are periodically updated with new entries.
The collection of HTML pages and images that is stored locally by a browser and
used to quickly load pages that have been previously viewed without waiting for
them to be downloaded again.
browser cache
A module of computer code that adds capabilities to a browser, such as the
ability to block ads on Web pages.
extension
A modification of copyright practices, copyleft allows third-party copying and
distribution as long as the copies have the same license as the original.
copyleft
A message sent from a Web server to a browser and stored on a user's hard disk,
usually containing information about the user.
Cookie
Based on 5 rights, copy right holders can grant or deny: attribution, Share alike,
no deritvatives, public domain, noncommercial.
Licensing options that extend rights, such as creating derivatives, to someone
other than the copyright owner.
Creative commons
An activity in which a group of people contribute, usually online, to solving a
problem or completing a task.
crowd sourcing
(Cascading Style Sheets) Used in conjunction with HTML, a means of formatting
the appearance of text and other elements of a Web page.
CSS
A collection of information that might be stored in more than one file or in more
than one record type.
Database
A work, such as a translation or adaptation, that contains major elements of a
previously copyrighted work.
Derivative work
An area of a hard disk created by dividing a large hard disk into several smaller
virtual ones, such as when using two operating systems on a single computer.
disk partition
POP3 - Post Office Protocol and
IMAP- Internet message access protocol both manage incoming mail,
SMTP-Simple mail transfer protocol-Handles outgoing mail