Sunday, October 18, 2009

CYBERLANGUAGE (WORD AND ITS MEANING)

COOKIES
Dictionary- any of various small flat sweet cakes
Internet- A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.

DECRYPT
Dictionary- convert code into ordinary language
Internet- To convert encrypted text into its equivalent plain text by means of a cryptosystem.

ENCRYPT
Dictionary- convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
Internet- To alter information using a code or mathematical algorithm so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized readers.

FIREWALL
Dictionary- the application of maximum thrust; "he moved the throttle to the firewall"
Internet- A software program designed to protect a network by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access or by monitoring transfers of information to and from the network.

FLAME
Dictionary- The hot, glowing mixture of burning gases and tiny particles that arises from combustion.
Internet- To communicate emotionally via e-mail. Just as people might differ about what is polite behavior and what is not, whether an e-mail message is flaming is also in the eye of the beholder.

HTML
Dictionary- a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
Internet- A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.

JAVA
Dictionary- An island of Indonesia separated from Borneo by the Java Sea, an arm of the western Pacific Ocean. Center of an early Hindu Javanese civilization, Java was converted to Islam before the arrival of the Europeans (mainly the Dutch) in the late 16th century.
Internet- A trademark used for a programming language designed to develop applications, especially ones for the Internet, that can operate on different platforms.

MIRROR
Dictionary- polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
Internet- Something worthy of imitation.

OFFLINE
Dictionary- Not connected to the Internet, online service or internal network
Internet- Not under the control of a central computer, as in a manufacturing process or experiment.

TROLL
Dictionary- sing loudly and without inhibition
Internet- someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an
online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

WEBMASTER
Dictionary- a technician who designs or maintains a website
Internet- A person whose occupation is designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining websites.

ZIP
Dictionary- To move with a sharp hissing sound.
Internet- a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail

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