- ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions. See official website.
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- IIS - Internet Information Services. Microsoft’s web server applications, Microsoft’s high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet server based on Windows NT Server. IIS supports the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher. See details at microsoft.com.
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- Image - In common usage, an image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artifact that reproduces the likeness of some subject—usually a physical object or a person.
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- Image Maps - Image maps allow you to create multiple links over the top of a single image. By apply shapes (circles, squares or polygon) you can define spatial coordinates to be "hot zones" which link users to a specified page or site.
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- IMHO - (In My Humble Opinion) -- shorthand appended to a comment written in an online forum, IMHO indicates that the writer is aware that they are expressing a debatable view, probably on a subject already under discussion. One of may such short hands in common use online, especially in discussion forums.
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- Index Page - A default page that automatically displays when the top level of a Web site is accessed.
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- Index Server - Index Server is an advanced search engine. Index Server allows for an efficient search of your web site since it is fully customizable and can be set not to require constant re-indexing.
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- Internet - A network of computer networks which operates world-wide using a common set of communications protocols.
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- Internet Group Management Protocol - (IGMP)
A network control protocol running on top of the IP protocol. It is used by Internet hosts to maintain information related to multicast. All machines that want to use the multicast have to have the IGMP implemented.
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- Internet Message Access Protocol - (IMAP)
IMAP is gradually replacing POP as the main protocol used by email clients in communicating with email servers. Using IMAP an email client program can not only retrieve email but can also manipulate message stored on the server, without having to actually retrieve the messages. So messages can be deleted, have their status changed, multiple mail boxes can be managed, etc.
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- Internet Service Provider - (ISP)
Internet Service Provider. A company that provides an Internet connection.
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- InterNIC - The Internet Network Information Center, The official source of information about the Internet. Its goal is to provide Internet information services, supervise the registration of Internet addresses, and develops and provides databases that serve as white and yellow pages to the Internet.
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- Intranet - Inter-connected network within one organization that uses Web technologies for the sharing of information internally, not world wide.
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- IP Number - Internet Protocol Number; a 4-part number, separated by dots, which identifies a specific machine on the Internet. e.g. 165.113.245.2
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- IP packet - IP packet is the basic data chunk that can be sent over the Internet. All the data is partitioned into IP packets on the sending computer and reassembled on the receiving computer.
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- IPX - Internetwork Packet Exchange. A NetWare communications protocol used to route messages from one node to another. IPX packets include net-work addresses and can be routed from one network to another.
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- IRC - IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. IRC is a massive network of text-based chat channels (rooms) and users all across the world. Read more about IRC protocol.
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- ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network An international standard for end-to-end digital transmission of voice, data, and signaling. In a videoconference it is a system that provides simultaneous voice, video, and text transmission between individual desktop videoconferencing systems and group (room) videoconferencing systems.
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- ISML - Short for InterShop Markup Language. ISML is a set of scripting tags to generate dynamic web pages. ISML tags are extensions of any tag-based language that conforms to SGML standards.
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- ISO - International Standards Organization, an International organization working with the United Nations that maintains standards for all applications of technology for global industry. See official ISO website.
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- ITU - International Telecommunication Union. An international organization within the United Nations System where governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
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