The Lexicon of New Media Terms

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Terms beginning with "T"

• T1: A fast cable connection to the Internet; the term comes from AT&T referring to digital signals transferring at 1.544 megabits per second.
• T3: A fast Internet cable connection for transferring digital signals at 44.736 megabits per second - almost 30 times faster than a T1 line.
• tables: Presenting content in columns and rows; often used in Web design for document layout.
• tabular data control: A Microsoft ActiveX control which processes a data file and returns results in a Web page.
• tags: Bracketed text commands written into a document to specify how content should be formatted.
• talent: Regular on-air personalities at radio and television broadcast stations; for example, a news anchor is "talent" but a camera operator is not.
• tar: A method of file archiving.
• targeting: Aiming a brand message to a specific audience.
• TCP: Transfer Control Protocol, a method of controlling the transport of data and making sure what's recieved matches what was sent.
• TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of protocols that defines where computer are and how to find them through the Internet.
• Telnet: An Internet protocol and program allowing a user to log into a remote computer.
• template: A design "skeleton" meant to have content added in later on by producers or an automated process.
• terminial emulation: Communicating with a remote computer as if the user's computer was a terminal connected to that computer.
• ThinkPad: A type of IBM laptop computer.
• threads / threaded messages: A series of messages in which secondary messages are replies to the intiial posted message or other users' replies.
• Torvalds, Linus: The guy who modified UNIX into a more open version called Linux.
• timeout: The length of time it takes a program or user to give up trying to do a specific task.
• tilde: The sorta squiggly dash character available from shift-clicking the top left corner key of most American-style keyboards; rhymes with "bill me."
• Time Warner: A major media corporation which owns CNN, Time, AOL, and many other media products.
• top-of-mind: Brands that consumers associate most quickly with certain products.
• traffic: The number of visitor a Web site gets, as tracked by pageviews, visitors, impressions or hits.
• trial: When a consumer samples or gets more information about a product for the first time.
• trialware: Software which is made available online for use over a limited time (like 30 days), after which the program typcially stops working.
• typeface: Overall design of how text characters appear. Courier is a typeface; Courier 24-point bold is a font.

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