An area within an Internet server that provides information. A software agreement that lets you legally use multiple copies of the same program on several computers at the same time. Site licenses are cheaper than buying multiple copies of the same program, and they're legal, whereas software privacy is not. The protocol that supports messaging functions over the Internet. SMTP describes how e-mail servers should send and receive messages.
Snail mail is computer slang for regular postal carrier mail.
Software generally refers to any type of computer program, from an operating system such as DOS, to a utility, to an application, to a program stored on a ROM chip. This contrasts from hardware , which is the physical side of computing. It's the software that makes the hardware go. Without it, the hardware would be nothing but potential. A reusable piece of software in binary form that can be easily integrated with other components with relatively little effort.