Generally refers to reading a newsgroup or mailing list without posting any messages of your own. When you join up, you get information on whatever subject you've chosen and you get messages regularly from the other members of the list. There are thousands of mailing lists in cyberspace on a wide variety of topics. The device that allows your computer to link up with other computers over telephone lines. A Multi-user Object Orriented environment, an interactive system accessible through Telnet by many users at the same time.
MUDs are role-playing games that exist on the Internet for entertainment purposes.
They are mostly text-based virtual worlds in which many players can participate at the same time. Short for Internet. A group of computers joined by data-carrying links. A network may be as small as two or three personal computers tied together by telephone lines, or it may be a vast complex of computers spread across the world. There are currently over 30,000 active newsgroups.