When a program or operating system fails to respond or causes other programs to malfunction. Crashfreeze Its when you're frantically wiggling the mouse yet the cursor just sits there, mocking you with its motionlessness. A term coined by William Gibson for the Internet when it was purely a science-fiction and literary concept. It refers to the lack of any real sense of physical location on the Internet. A permanently connected telephone line between two computer systems.
Dedicated lines make up the bulk of the Internet.
Demoware Demonstration versions of products, usually fully featured versions of the products that may be used for a limited time after which they expire. Users must register the product to intstall a non-expiring version. DNS Domain Name server or domain name system. However, since we humans have trouble remembering all those numbers, the domain name was created. Downloading When you copy a file from another computer to your own, you're downloading.