The Lexicon of New Media Terms

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Terms beginning with "E"

• Easter egg: A cute little message or useless function programmers hide inside their software's user interface. Clicking on a hotspot or typing in a password can trigger an Easter Egg.
• Ebay.com: The biggest online auction site on the Web, eBay took sales from newspaper classifieds and created Earth's biggest perpetual rummage sale.
• ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association, the group which decides standards for computer technologies.
• e-mail: Electronic mail, usually using a client program like Eudora or Outlook to pull text messages and attachments off a remote mail server.
• embedded media: Non-ASCII content called into a Web page; examples include RealAudio files or GIF animations.
• emoticon: A group of ASCII characters that are meant to suggest a type of face; also called a smiley.
• EPS: Encapsulated PostScript, a document format widely used in digital printing which combines vector and bitmap images
• esc: The escape key which can be used to interupt a software program's functions.
• Ethernet: A type of network connection moving data between computers at speeds of 10 megabits per second.
• event: Actions which a user does to interact with a computer program; examples include keystorkes, button clicks, or the position of the mouse pointer.
• event handler: A function designed into a program or script to do something in response to an action by a user; for example, "when button is clicked, change Web page."
• Excel: Microsoft's spreadsheet application.
• Excite.com: A Web search engine site.
• expression: Phrases which can be evaluted; for example, x + 10 or x < 10, as opposed to x = 10, which is simply a statement.
• eyeballs: Slang for viewers, as in "Our Web site can deliver a lot of eyeballs for your ad."

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