Authoring software - A software package that allows a user to create interactive media and multimedia presentations incorporating text, sound and pictures. B Backbone - The main communication channel in a network wiring scheme, so called because other communications lines connect to it like ribs connect to the human body's backbone.
Wider bandwidths can carry more information.
Bit - An acronym for binary digit. Bitmap - Image, usually a graphics file with the extension .bmp, stored as a pattern of bits. Browser - Software that allows computer users to navigate through and view information and images on the Web. A CAV LaserDisc can store up to 54,000 individual images or 30 minutes of fully random access motion video. The storage capacity of a single CD-ROM is 683 megabytes of data or about 600 high density floppy disks.