Cracker Someone who breaks into a system to create damage. Many ISPs and Web sites offer already-written scripts for common functions, such as guest books or search engines. Cookies can be used to send personalized information to browsers, such as news headlines or stock prices, and to store visitor profies, which can be sorted with special site-analysis sofware. A nebulous name for the Internet. Firewall A computer system between a local network and the Internet that, for security reasons, screens out certain kinds of incoming and outgoing messages.
Flame wars are when more than one person gets involved.
The system was invented at the University of Minnesota as a way to track documents campus-wide. Hacker Someone who breaks into a system mostly to prove that he or she can do it. Home Page A Web page about a person or organization. Sometimes this is used to describe the index page of a collection of pages at a site . The colored words and phrases in Web documents are hyperlinks.