The Lexicon of New Media Terms

The following definations are drawn from backgrounds in telecommunications, advertising, computing, and both print and broadcast journalism; slang also is included.

• Terms beginning with a number: 411, 911
• Terms beginning with A: Access, ACID, ACL, acquisition...
• Terms beginning with B: B2B, B2C, backbone, banners, BBS...
• Terms beginning with C: C++, C2C, CA, cache, call to action...
• Terms beginning with D: daemon, data binding, data type...
• Terms beginning with E: Easter egg, Ebay.com, ECMA, e-mail...
• Terms beginning with F: FAQ, file compression, file extentions...
• Terms beginning with G: Gannett Corp., gateway, gaussian blur...
• Terms beginning with H: hack, hardware, hash, hexadecimal...
• Terms beginning with I: IAB, ICe, Icepick, ICQ, IIS, iMac...
• Terms beginning with J: Java, JavaScript, JCBC, JDK, JPEG...
• Terms beginning with K: killer app, kiosk, Knight-Ridder Corp...
• Terms beginning with L: LAN, laptop, latency, layer, leading...
• Terms beginning with M: Mac OS, macro, mailserver, Media Metrix...
• Terms beginning with N: nameserver, nanotechnology, NCSA...
• Terms beginning with O: object, OCBC, office suite, OLE...
• Terms beginning with P: P2P, packet switching, pageview...
• Terms beginning with Q: Quark Xpress, Quicktime
• Terms beginning with R: RDF, reach, RealMedia, redundancy...
• Terms beginning with S: scaleability, scripting language...
• Terms beginning with T: T1, T3, tables, tabular data control...
• Terms beginning with U: undocumented feature, UNIX, URL...
• Terms beginning with V: validation, VALS, vaporware, VB...
• Terms beginning with W: WAIS, walk-through, WAN, warez...
• Terms beginning with X: XHTML, XML, XSSI...
• Terms beginning with Y: Y2K, Yahoo!
• Terms beginning with Z: Zatso, ZDNET, zip...

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