- easter egg - A
hidden surprise in a program or on a web site. A special
feature which is not otherwise made obvious but when
"discovered" or clicked on offers something
special. This could be in the form of an extra game level
or secret area or an animation or a message of some kind.
- editor - A program
or a tool to create and edit documents, like a HTML file.
- .edu - An internet
domain normally assigned to educational institutions or
universities.
- element - A unit
of structure in a HTML document. Many elements have start
and stop tags. Some have just a single tag and some can
contain other elements.
- e-mail - Electronic-mail.
Electronically transmitted messages. Linked by high speed
data connections that cross international boundaries,
e-mail lets you compose messages and transmit them in
seconds to one or more recipients anywhere in the world.
Old fashioned regular mail is called "snail
mail".
- e-mail
abbreviation - The following list shows the
abbreviations that are normally used in e-mails (some of
them really absurd. There is no statutory requirement
that you use these. Stick to the saner full version). If
you are in a chat room, you will see such abbreviations
being used liberally.
^5 - High Five!
AKA- Also Known As
BBL- Be Back Later
BBIAF- Be Back in a Few
BBIAB-Be Back in a Bit
BCNU-Be Seein' You
BFN- Bye For Now
BIF - Basic In Fact
BTW - By The Way
CUL8R - See You Later
F2F - Face To Face
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYA - For Your Amusement
FYI - For Your Information
FUD - (Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty and Disinformation
GR&D - Grinning Running And Ducking
HTH - Hope This(That) Helps
IAE - In Any Event
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW - In Other Words
IRL - In Real Life
L8R - Later
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LTNS - Long Time No See
MorF - Male or Female
MHOTY - My Hat's Off To You
MOTD - Message Of The Day
MOTSS - Members Of The Same Sex
NRN - No Reply Necessary
NBIF - No Basis In Fact
OIC - Oh, I see
OOTB - Out Of The Box or Blue
OTOH - On The Other Hand
POV - Point Of View
PMFJI - Pardon Me For Jumping In
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor
RSN - Real Soon Now
RTM - Read The Manual
SITD - Still In The Dark
SorG - Straight or Gay?
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TIC - Tongue In Cheek
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
TTYL - Talk To You Later
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TMTT - Too Much To Type
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
unPC - unPolitically Correct
WB - Welcome Back
WEG - Wicked Evil Grin
WTG - Way To Go!
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
See also : emoticons and smileys.
- embed - To include a
plug-in object in the document (normally used with
Netscape)
- emoticons - A
symbol to compensate for the absence of nonverbal clues
when communicating on the Internet. For example <g>
signifies a "grin", :} or :-} a
"smile", when inserted in the text of an e-mail
message and alerts the reader not to take it seriously.
Anyway, do not try to remember these emoticons.
:-) Basic smiley
:^) Smiley with a personality
:) Midget smiley
<:-l Dunce smiley
,-) Winking happy smiley
:=) Orangutan smiley
(-: Left hand smiley
>:-> Devilish smiley
(:-) Smiley big face
>:-l Klingon smiley
(:-( Very unhappy smiley
@:-) Smiley wearing a turban
,-} Wry and winking smiley
@:-} Smiley just back from the hairdresser
C=:-) Chef smiley
'-) Winking smiley
X:-) Little kid with a propeller beanie
:-# My lips are sealed
[:-) Smiley wearing a walkman
:-* Kiss
[:] Robot smiley
:-/ Skeptical smiley
{:-) Smiley wears a toupee
:-> Sarcastic smiley
l^o Hepcat smiley
:-@ Screaming smiley
}:^#) Pointy nosed smiley
:-d Said with a smile
:-(=) Bucktooth smiley
:-V Shouting smiley
O-) Message from cyclops
:-X A big wet kiss
:-3 Handlebar mustache smiley
:-\ Undecided smiley
: = Beaver smiley
:-] Smiley blockhead
:-" Whistling smiley
;-( Crying smiley
P-( Pirate smiley
>;-> A very lewd remark was just made
;^) Smirking smiley
?-( Black eye
%-) Smiley after staring at a screen for 15 hours
straight
):-( Nordic smiley
d:-) Baseball smiley
3:] Lucy my pet dog smiley
:8) Pigishsmiley
:-& Tongue tied
:-7 Smirking smiley
8:-) Little girl smiley
):-) Impish smiley
:-)8< Big girl smiley
:/\) Extremely bignosed smiley
:-0 Talkaktive smiley
8(:-) Mickey Mouse
:-6 Smiley after eating something spicy
+:-) Priest smiley
([( Robocop
O:-) Angel smiley
:-(*) That comment made me sick
:-< Walrus smiley
&-l That made me cry
:-? Smiley smokes a pipe
:-e Disappointed smiley
:-E Bucktoothed vampire
:( Sad-turtle smiley
:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing
:-Q Smoking smiley
:,( Crying smiley
:-}X Bow tie-wearing smiley
:-[ Vampire smiley
:-S What you say make no sense
:-a Smiley touching her tongue to her nose
:-{ Mustache
:-C Real unhappy smiley
:-{} Smiley waers lipstick
:-r Smiley raspberry
:-t Pouting smiley
:-W Speak with forked tongue
X-( You are brain dead
l-O Smiley is yawing
l:-O Flattop loudmouth smiley
$-) Yuppie smiley
:-! Foot in mouth
:---) You lie like pinnochio
O-) Smiley after smoking a banana
=:-) Smiley is a punk
=:-( Real punk never smiles
3:[ Pitbull smiley
8<:-) Smiley is a wizard
:#) Drunk smiley
8-# Dead smiley
B-) Smiley wears glasses
|-( Smiley lost his contact lenses
8-) Smiley with big eye... perhaps wearing contact
lenses...
H-) Cross-eyed smiley
]-I Smiley wearing sunglasses (cool, therefore no smile,
only a smark!)
V^J Smiley with glasses, seen from the left side (tip
head on right to see)
+-( Smiley, shot between the eyes
~:-P Smiley with one single hair
BI A frog
- encrypt - Convert
sensitive information like password, credit card number
into a non-readable format before passing it over the
internet.
- .eps - Encapsulated
PostScript file. A type of graphics file.
- ethernet -A
high-speed LAN system using bus topology that is highly
suitable for connection to the Internet.
- Eudora - A popular
e-mail software
- event - Something
that happens within a component of an application and
which the application recognises and acts accordingly.
For example, when you click the mouse on a link, that is
an event.
- .EXE -In DOS, denotes
an "executable" file that will run when its
name is simply entered at the DOS prompt (with or without
the .EXE). Such files are also executable in Windows.
- e-zines - Electronic
Magazines