Glossary
Useful terms and words related to the Internet and related services:
Simply click on the letter that the term you are looking for begins with, and then click on the word when it appears.
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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