 U UNIX: A computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. Upload: To copy a file from a local computer connected to the Internet to a remote computer. Opposite is download. URL: (Uniform Resource
Locator) -- The standard way to give the address of any resource
on the Internet that is part of the World Wide Web (WWW). A URL
looks like this: See Also: Browser , WWW Another name for Internet Newsgroups. A distributed bulletin board system running on news servers, Unix hosts, on-line services and bulletin board systems. Collectively, Usenet is made up of all the users who post and read articles to newsgroups. The Usenet is international in scope and is the largest decentralized information utility available today. The Usenet includes government agencies, universities, high schools, organizations of all sizes as well as millions of stand-alone PCs. Some estimates we found say that there were 15,000 public newsgroups in 1996 and more than 200,000 in 1999 (counting web-based fori), collecting more than 100 megabytes and 800 megabytes of data everyday, respectively. See Also: Newsgroup UUENCODE: (Unix to
Unix Encoding) -- A method for converting files from Binary to
ASCII (text) so that they can be sent across the Internet via
email. V Veronica: (Very
Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) --
Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly
updated database of the names of almost every menu item on
thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched
from most major gopher menus. W WAIS: (Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like that last batch and thus refine the search process. WAN: (Wide Area
Network) -- Any internet or network that covers an area larger
than a single building or campus. WAV: Waveform Audio (.wav) - a common audio file format for DOS/Windows computers. WINSOCK: A Microsoft Windows DLL file that provides the interface to TCP/IP services, essentially allowing Windows to use Web browsers, FTP programs, and others.World Wide Web: See: WWW (World Wide Web) -- The universe of hypertext or web servers (HTTP servers) which are the ones that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together. Often misused for the Internet, of which it is a part.See Also: Browser , HTTP , URL Z ZIP: A compressed file format (.zip). Many files available on the Internet are compressed or zipped in order to reduce storage space and transfer times. To uncompress the file, you need a utility like PKZip (DOS) or WinZip (Windows).
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