This glossary is only a tiny subset of net.speak, all the various terms and phrases that people regularly use on Internet. The 2nd edition just came out in December 1993, and is available from the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142. Tilt your head to the left 90 degrees. Smilies, or smileys are also used to denote sarcasm.
Computers store all information as binary numbers.
ANSI Computers use several different methods for deciding how to put information on your screen and how your keyboard interacts with the screen. To use it properly, you will first have to turn it on, or enable it, in your communications software. Started in 1969 with funds from the Defense Department's Advanced Projects Research Agency. A high-speed network that connects several powerful computers. In the U.S., the backbone of the Internet is often considered the NSFNet, a government funded link between a handful of supercomputer sites across the country.