Dialup
A slower alternative to broadband for connecting to the internet. It uses a modem to connect to the phone line with a wire. The phone cannot be used at the same time.
Discussion forum
This allows people to exchange views generally on common interests via the internet. Comments, known as posts, are organised into topics called threads. You con comment on previous posts, or start a new thread.
KB
The abbreviation for kilobyte, 1024 bytes.
Domain name
This is the key part of an internet address. You can tell something about a website from its domain name. If it ends .with uk , then it is British. A .co.uk means a British company. .gov.uk is a UK government site and so on. Dot-com or (.com) is the ending for the domain name of the website of an American company or a company that wants to look American. It has been used to refer to new companies trying to make money from the internet, but is also used by long-established companies.
Dawnload
Copy something from the internet to your own computer. Drop-down menu combo box this offers a range of choices from which you can select an item. E-commerce Doing business on the internet such as shopping.
Email or e-mail
Electronic mail by which people can correspond with you. You will need to use an email program and get your own email address from an email provider such as btinternet, blueyonder, tesco. To send someone an email, you need their email address. An email address contains an @ (at) sign. Sending an email is virtually instant.
Email group
This lets you send emails to a group instead of sending individual emails.
Email list
A group of people usually with some common interest. A way of sharing knowledge or friendship.
Enter
This is the big key on the keyboard a few keys to the right of the letters P and L. If something should be happening, but isn’t, try pressing the enter key.
Execute a program
The same as to run a program.
FAQ
Stands for Frequently Asked Questions. Many website have a FAQ section with answers. It can be useful reading FAQs before asking for help.
Favourites
The list of website which you have bookmarked as wanting to visit again.
File
A file is made up of data. It could be a document written in a word- processor such as Microsoft Word. You can open a file to look at it, close it when you’ve finished with it, save it if you have changed the contents, run it if it’s a program, play it if it’s music and print it if it’s writing or pictures. A webpage is a file, and so is each picture on a webpage. Every file has a name and filetype. Files are kept in folders. The filetype is shown by the letters in the filename that come after the last full stop. For example, a file name ending with .gif or jpgis a picture, a file name ending with .htm or .html is a webpage and a file name ending with .pdf is an Adobe Acrobat file.