client The user of a network service; also used to describe a computer that relies upon another for some or all of its resources.
Cyberspace
A term coined by William Gibson in his fantasy novel
Neuromancer to describe the "world" of computers, and the
society that gathers around them.
datagram The basic unit of information passed across the Internet. It contains a source and destination address along with data. Large messages are broken down into a sequence of IP datagrams.
disassembling
Converting a binary program into human-readable machine language code.
DNS (Domain Name System)
The method used to convert Internet names to their corresponding
Internet numbers.
domain A part of the naming hierarchy. Syntactically, a domain name consists of a sequence of names or other words separated by dots.
dotted quad A set of four numbers connected with periods that make up an Internet address; for example, 147.31.254.130.
email The vernacular abbreviation for electronic mail.
email address The UUCP or domain-based address that a user is referred to with. For example, the author's address is brendan@cs.widener.edu.
ethernet A 10-million bit per second networking scheme originally developed by Xerox Corporation. Ethernet is widely used for LANs because it can network a wide variety of computers, it is not proprietary, and components are widely available from many commercial sources.