An email program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard. Top Generally speaking, to mirror is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to mirror sites which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource. Another common use of the term mirror refers to an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing anything. Top Short for Modulator-demodulator devices.
Modems allow computers to transmit information to one another via an ordinary telephone line.
The first WWW browser that was available for the Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX all with the same interface. Mosaic really started the popularity of the Web.