# Glossary of Internet-related terms

This is a Glossary of Internet Terminology; words pertaining to Internet Technology, a subset of Computer Science.

## A–M
### ADSL

    Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line is a technology for transmitting digital information at a high bandwidth on existing phone lines to homes and businesses. ADSL is asymmetric in the sense that it uses most of the channel to transmit downstream to the user and only a small part to receive information from the user. This means, high download rates and slower upload rates. Generally if you see 2 Mb ADSL broadband, it refers to 2 Mbit/s Max d/load rate. The upload rate will probably be around 256 kbit/s Max. (ADSL has a maximum download rate of 8 Mbit/s, ADSL2 is capable of up to 16 Mbit/s and ADSL2+ is rated at 24 Mbit/s maximum.)

### Bandwidth (computing)

    Rate data transfers across a network

### Blogging

    Writing on or otherwise using online journals known as web logs or blogs

### Cable modem

    Primary competitor to ADSL, uses digital information transmitted over a cable television infrastructure.

### CSS

    Cascading Style Sheets; while HTML dictates the content of page, CSS regulates the format, including headers, footers, navigation bars, etc. While all of these elements can be created in HTML, such a method would have to be repeated on every web page. CSS on the other hand, is applied to all pages of a website.

### Cyberbullying

    A bully who harasses his or her victims online through various means such as spamming, defaming or negative impersonation of the victim.

### Dial-up

    A method of connection to the internet using existing copper phone lines using a modem on the client's end to send information at a slow speed, normally reaching maximum speed at about 56 kbit/s. This technology uses the voice spectrum of the telephone lines to transmit data using a system of sounds that only the receiving modem or ISP understand.

### Egosurfer

    someone who searches the Internet for references of themselves

### Fail

    The opposite of "win", "fail" expresses an ability to incorrectly perform acts ranging from idiotically simple to impossibly difficult, often consisting of an amusing element.

### Flamer

    A flamer is someone who makes degrading or insulting remarks on a forum or other Internet message board, the verb of which is "flame".

### Friending

    the act of making and adding friends online through social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace

### FTP

    Protocol to exchange files between two computers.

### The Game

    A popular mind game, often referred to on public message boards as a way to irritate other users.

### Googling

    searching through the Google search engine

### Griefer

    A player of an online game who harasses other players.

### HTML

    HyperText Markup Language, the coding language used to create hypertext documents for the World Wide Web. In HTML, a block of text can be surrounded with tags that indicate how it should appear (for example, in bold face or italics). Also, in HTML a word, a block of text, or an image can be linked to another file on the Web. HTML files are viewed with a World Wide Web browser.

### ID-10-T

    clueless user; everybody giving a hard time to (computer) administrators

### Jank

    flickering in a user interface, due to the software generating the interface being unable to update quickly enough for the display's frame rate.

### Lag

    perceived poor response times or sluggishness in a user interface, which may be due to programming defects, use of low-quality processes, executing long tasks. Often this slows down or affects user performed operations.

### Leet

    Leet, or "1337", (from elite) is someone who is unnaturally adept at a certain trait or ability. Originally used as a slightly infra dig expression in the hacker community. Later usage centered around video games players.

### Lurk

    Used to describe visiting and spending time on forums and image boards viewing content but not posting. People engaged in this are called "lurkers".