Netscape Communications Corporation is the brainchild of Jim Clark, a former Silicon Graphics executive, and Mark Andreessen, the principal developer of Mosaic at NCSA . Netscape now occupies Wall Street legend, because when it was first offered for public sale in August 1995, Netscape stock gained three times its opening value on the first day. NIC Network Information Center. An office that assigns domain names on the Internet. Lower-level domain names are usually assigned by local network administrators.
Online services are much like overgrown BBSs in that one owner controls all the content.
The best-known online services are America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy. Top of Page PDF Portable Document Format. The file format used by Adobe Acrobat . Perl A UNIX-based scripting language that is often used on the World Wide Web. When you submit a complex form from your browser window, for example, the processing of the information may be handled by a Perl script.