Cookie A means for websites to provide users with information that will most likely interest them. Cookies gather information actively from electronic forms completed by users and passively by recording the activities of a user, within a website. It is important to note that Cookies do not read your hard drive. A compilation of information which can be grouped in a variety of ways. For example, you can use a database to provide your customers with pictures of products, prices, sizes, colors, etc.
Web users can then access that information based on the criteria they believe to be most important.
Download Transferring a file to your computer by either clicking on a hyperlink, or using FTP software. A permanent connection to the Internet using a separate phone line. Dial-up One way that computers talk to each other. A dial-up connection uses phone lines and a modem. It is also the way many people access the Internet, particularly when used from home.