- NAK - This
is the signal sent by a modem to the sending station if
the data that was received was corrupted or not ok.
(Negative AcKnowledgement)
- navigate
- Just exactly what this word means in normal
English. To explore your way through the web by following
the links on the pages.
- NCSA -(National
Center for Supercomputing Applications) - A U.S.
government center at the city of Illinois. NCSA developed
the Mosaic Web browser and other Internet Interfaces.
- Net nanny
- Net Nanny is a commercial piece of software
intended for parents, guardians and teachers who wish to
stop children from accessing pornographic and other
undesirable material and also preventing the children's
personal information - names, addresses, telephone
numbers, etc.- from being circulated on the Internet.
- netiquette
- Basic guidelines (etiquette on the Net) to be
followed while sending mails, participating in chat /
discussion groups, posting to bulletin boards.
- netizen - You.
Citizen in the world of Internet.
- Netscape Navigator
- The most popular browser (the fight between
Microsoft and Netscape for supremacy among the browsers
is a never-ending one. At present, Netscape is numero
uno.) from Netscape.
- Netscapism
-Affectionate sobriquet for an HTML tag or
attribute that is only interpreted by the Netscape
Browser. More correctly known as a Netscape Extension.
- Newbie - A
novice to Internet.
- newsfeed
- The news 'fed' to you from time to time by
ISPs.
- newsgroups
- A part of the Internet which allows users to
"post" and "reply to" messages from
other users. A discussion forum similar to that found on
local BBSs. Broken into many different subjects (approx.
25,000) newsgroup titles usually begin with a three or
four letter prefix followed by a ".", alt.,
soc., comp., misc., rec., and sci. just to name a few.
- NEWSRCfile
-Data file that keeps a record of which
newsgroups a user is subscribed to, and which articles
have already been read.
- Newsreader
-Software whose function is to interact with
Usenet newsgroups, providing services such as
subscription, display, follow-up, print, download, and so
on.
- NFS - (Network
File System ) NFS is a protocol suite developed and
licensed by Sun Microsystems that allows different makes
of computers running different operating systems to share
files and disk storage.
- NIC - Network
Information Center.
- NNTP -(Network
News Transport Protocol) -The protocol
used by the Usenet newsgroups to disseminate bulletins.
- NOC - Network
Operations Center. NOC is the organization responsible
for the day-to-day operations of the Internet's component
networks.
- nodes - Points
in a network where service is provided, service is used,
or communications channels are interconnected.
- NREN - National
Research and Education Network - NREN is an effort to
combine the networks operated by the U.S. government into
a single high-speed network.
- NSA line eater
- Some paranoid Net users believe that the
National Security Agency has a super-powerful computer
assigned to reading everything posted on the Net. They
will jokingly refer to this line eater in their postings.
- NSAPI - (Netscape
Server Application Programming Interface) Netscape's API
was designed as a more robust and efficient replacement
for CGI.
- NSF - (National
Science Foundation) An Independent agency of the Federal
government that was established in 1950 by an Act of
Congress. The agency's mission is to promote the progress
of science and engineering.
- NT-1 - (Network
Terminator 1) An NT-1 is an interface box that converts
ISDN data into something a PC can understand (and vice
versa). It works a little like a cable TV descrambler for
ISDN signals, and is often built in to ISDN adapters.
- NTSC -Acronym
for the RGB color TV standard used throughout North
America. Cynical European engineers, who think their
luminance/chrominance system is better, say it stands for
"Never twice the same color," but actually it
is "National Technical Standards Committee".