Glossary of Terms

Navigate
To move around on the World Wide Web by following hypertext paths from document to document on different computers.

Netiquette
Contraction of Internet etiquette, the etiquette guidelines for posting messages to online services, and particularly Internet newsgroups. Netiquette covers not only rules to maintain civility in discussions (i.e., avoiding flames), but also special guidelines unique to the electronic nature of forum messages. For example, netiquette advises users to use simple formats because complex formatting may not appear correctly for all readers. In most cases, netiquette is enforced by fellow users who will vociferously object if you break a rule of netiquette.

Netscape Navigator
A highly popular World Wide Web browser. The program allows for Gopher, FTP, and Telnet access as well as email and newsgroup retrieval and management. Many companies use Netscape server software to create Web pages and are therefore written to be best displayed using Netscape Navigator. The program is available for all platforms and is especially adept at displaying graphics.

Network
Two or more computers that are connected. The most common types of networks are: * LAN - Local Area Network The computers are near each other, in the same office space, room or building. * WAN - Wide Area Network The computers are at different geographic locations and are connected by telephone lines or radio waves.

Newsgroup
Same as forum, an on-line discussion group. On the Internet, there are literally thousands of newsgroups covering every conceivable interest. To view and post messages to a newsgroup, you need a newsreader, a program that runs on your computer and connects you to a news server on the Internet.

NIC Handle
Every entity registered with InterNIC has a NIC handle. For example, Burlee.com has a NIC handle of BD927-ORG that contains our address and contact information, so that we need not enter this information each time a new domain name is registered. You can use the same NIC handle as contacts for several domains. This way, if you make a change to the NIC handle (i.e., the email address), all domains using that NIC handle will be updated as well.

NOC- Network Operations Center
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Internet's component networks

NSLOOKUP
NSLOOKUP is a command that can be used in Windows and Unix to find the IP addresses of a particular computer, using DNS lookup. The name means "name server lookup". The most common version of the program is included as part of the BIND package. Examples: $ nslookup www.wikipedia.org Server: ns0.southern.edu Address: 216.229.224.4 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.wikipedia.org Addresses: 207.142.131.248, 207.142.131.235, 207.142.131.236, 207.142.131.245 207.142.131.246, 207.142.131.247

NT
A Windows NT (New Technologies) computer or server.