Also refers to a genre of online literature and to some printed science fiction cyberspace - a world in which computers and people coexist. D default - a setting in effect when you start up a computer or open an application, until you change it. In discussion groups, participants exchange messages about particular topics. You download files from a hard drive to a floppy disk. Downtime is the period during which you can't log on.
Journals usually have an academic bent and are published on a regular basis.
Many organizations now publish both a paper and electronic version of their journals. Zines tend to be renegade publications with irregular publication dates and cover a wide range of topics. Text is anything else - like this dictionary. An FAQ file or document usually explains the rules of the road for a particular site, group, or program. Fetch - Macintosh FTP software used to retrieve files from the internet.