Internet Glossary - N
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Navigation
The act of moving from location to location within a web site, or between
web sites. Navigation is accomplished by clicking on text links or navigation
buttons.
Netiquette
Netiquette, or net etiquette, refers to etiquette on the Internet. Good
netiquette involves respecting others' privacy and not doing anything
online that will annoy or frustrate other people. Three areas where good
netiquette is highly stressed are e-mail, online chat, and newsgroups.
For example, people that spam other users with unwanted e-mails or flood
them with messages have very bad netiquette. If you're new to a newsgroup
or online chat room, it may help to observe how people communicate with
each other before jumping in.
Network
When you have two or more computers connected to each other, you have
a network. The purpose of a network is to enable the sharing of files
and information between mulitple systems. The Internet could be described
as a global network of networks. Computer networks can be connected through
cables, such as Ethernet cables or phone lines, or wirelessly, using wireless
networking cards that send and receive data through the air.
Newbie
A new user of a technology, such as a computer, a certain computer program,
or the Internet, is often referred to as a "newbie." The term
originated sometime around 1990 and supposedly comes from the English
phrase, "new boy," which refers to someone in their first year
of public schooling. In online chat rooms, veteran net users like to call
anybody who asks an easy question a newbie. If you ever get called a newbie,
just shake it off -- everybody has to learn sometime.
