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Useful terms and words related to the Internet and related services:
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Plug-In
A small application which extends the built in capabilities of your Web browser. Examples include Macromedia's Shockwave, providing animation, and RealAudio, offering streamed sound files over the Internet. Compared to helpers, the multimedia files do not need to be downloaded before shown or played.
- Packet
- Page
- PageRank
- Patch
- PGP
- Phishing
- PHP
- Pixel
- Platform
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Plug-In
- Podcasting
- POP
- POP3 Account
- Portal
- Propagation
- Protocol
- Proxy Server
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