- script - A
program that runs on a server. Other client-side programs
like Javascript / VBscript are also called scripts
sometimes.
- search engine
-Keyword searching algorithms or complete
software package including search algorithms.
- secure channel
- A technology that provides privacy, integrity,
and authentication in point-to-point communications on
the Internet.
- secured sockets
layer - secured sockets
layer. A protocol that delivers server authentication,
data encryption, and message integrity.
- server -The
server half of client / server pair. The computer that
handles the primary data management tasks on behalf of
its clients.
- Server push
-Simple Web animation technique by which an
image called into a Web page is not actually an image but
a cgi-bin script that loads a series of images.
- SGML -(Standard
Generalized Markup language) The forerunner of HTML,
still used for many documents on the Web, particularly
reference works. Embedded "tags" similar to
HTML tags describe the format of the document so that it
can be displayed "across platforms," meaning on
any computer system.
- shareware
- Program normally available for free
downloading but a small amount needs to be paid for its
continued use.
- shell -1.A
simple, usually menu driven, interface that shields a
computer user from the complexities of operating systems
such as UNIX. Hence a common type of Internet connection,
known as a "UNIX shell account," can be
operated efficiently with extremly limited actual
knowledge of UNIX. 2. A type of simple computer knowledge
using UNIX commands and conditional structures to make an
executable file.
- Shockwave
- A Web browser plugin which provides for
Macromedia Director movies to be viewed on World Wide Web
pages.
- .SIG file
-A short text file that you habitually use as
your personal sign-off signature at the end of e-mail and
/ or Usenet postings.Netscape and other Internet
applications make it possible for your .SIG to be
appended to outgoing messages automatically.
- site - A
location on the internet / web, such as this homepage.
- SLIP -(Serial
Line Internet Protocol) A convention for transmitting
packet-switched data.
- smileys - See
emoticons / e-mail abbreviations.
- SMTP -(Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol) The usual protocol for outgoing
Internet e-mail.
- Snail Mail
- Conventional type of mail. (US Mail, Royal
Mail, etc.)
- socket -One
of a series of memory addresses in a computer reserved
for data exchange with a TCP / IP stack.
- software
- Do you really need the definition for this
term? (See 'program')
- sort -
Arrange data in a proper order - either ascending
sequence or descending sequence.
- soundcard
- Computer circuit card that provides the power
of audio to the PC.
- source document
-In the World Wide Web, the raw ASCII text file
that an HTML author creates, as distinct from a Web page
that is a representation of a source document in
hypertext.
- spam -
To send identical and irrelevent postings to many
different newsgroups or mailing lists. Usually this
posting is something that has nothing to do with the
particular topic of a newsgroup or of no real interest to
the person on the mailing list. The name comes from a
Monty Python song and is considered to be a serious
violation of netiquette.
- spew - While
spam refers to the mass sending of an e-mail or newsgroup
posting to a large number of people who would otherwise
not be interested in seeing the letter or post, spew is
when you're on a newgroup or in a chat room and one of
the participants goes on and on about something and/or
types the same thing repeatedly.
- spider - A
program that prowls the Internet, attempting to locate
new, publicly accessible resources such as WWW documents,
files available in public FTP archives, and Gopher
documents. Popular search engines employ these programs.
- SSL - See
Secured Socket Layer
- stack -In
the context of TCP / IP, a series of protocol and drivers
required to interface a desktop computer with the
Internet.
- storyboard
-Visual aid used in pre productions of movies
(especially for commercials, when the concept has to be
explained to many non-technical people) that lays out the
visual treatment as a series of sketch panels accompanied
by plot notes. Now also used by meticulous Web authors
for site planning (especially when they need to explain
the concept to inexperienced colleague or clients).
- string -In
computerese, any sequence of characters. "Desktop /
412" is a string. So is "u668_counter %".
Basically, any variable used by the computer that cannot
be evaluated numerically is a string.
- style sheet
-Text file that defines stylistic elements of a
series of HTML files, such as fonts, colors, and so on.
"Official" HTML prefers this way of defining
Web style rather than by the use of tags such as
<FONT> and attributes such as BGCOLOR. A style
sheet may be referenced by an unlimited number of HTML
files.
- surf - Just
to be going along from site to site in the web.
- SYSOP - Systems
Operator