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| INTERNET DICTIONARY - LETTER "E" | |
| EARN | See: European Academic and Research Network |
| easter egg | A hidden suprise in a program or on a Web site. A special feature which is not otherwise made obvious but when "discovered" or clicked on offers something special. This could be in the form of an extra game level or secret area or an animation or a message of some kind. Programmers often "bury" easter eggs in their programs to add a certain extra depth to their program or Web site and to challenge users to find it. |
| EBCDIC | See: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| Ebone | A pan-European backbone service. |
| Ecash | Developed by DigiCash and the Mark Twain Bank ecash is the abilty to use real money in a electronic purchasing system over the World Wide Web. The process involves you sending a check to Mark Twain Bank which in turn sends you software which gives you access to the Ecash Mint where you draw funds to your hard drive for use when purchasing goods and services on the Internet. SEE ALSO: digital cash. |
| editor | A program used to write and edit HTML code. |
| .edu | A type of Internet domain assigned to URLs which are university or other educational institutions (for example, www.pepperdine.edu). There is also .com, .gov, .net, and .org. SEE ALSO: country codes. |
| Eckert, John Presper | As a grad student studying at the Moore School in 1943, John Eckert met John Mauchly, who spoke about the idea of an electronic version of the Ganged Calculator. Mauchley needed someone to oversee the design and construction of the ENIAC computer, and it was J. Presper Eckert who rose to the challenge. They completed the first general purpose digital computer in 1946. Later that year, Eckert and Mauchly started a business partnership that become the Eckert-Mauchly Corp. Eckert died on June 3, 1995, from complications relating to leukemia. He was 76. |
| EFF | See: Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EFLA | See: Extended Four Letter Acronym |
| EGP | See: Exterior Gateway Protocol |
| e-journal | An electronic publication, similar to an e-zine or zine. An e-journal, however, is typically found in academic circles and is a regularly published journal either published solely in electronic form or made available in electronic form. |
| Electronic Bulletin Board | A shared file where users can enter information for other users to read or download. Many bulletin boards are set up according to general topics and are accessible throughout a network. |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | A foundation established to address social and legal issues arising from the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means of communication and information distribution. |
| Electronic Mail (email) | A system whereby a computer user can exchange messages with other computer users (or groups of users) via a communications network. Electronic mail is one of the most popular uses of the Internet. Source: NNSC |
| electronic mall/storefront | A virtual mall where you can browse and buy products or services online. |
| EMAC | Editing MACroS - The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced, self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor". It has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various hackers, and versions exist that run under most major operating systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by Stallman and now called "GNU EMACS" or GNUMACS, runs principally under UNIX. It includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail; many hackers spend up to 80% of their tube time inside it. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA EMACS, UniPress EMACS, Montgomery EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS. Some EMACS versions running under window managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and baroque for their taste, and expand the name as `Escape Meta Alt Control Shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with bucky bits. Other spoof expansions include `Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping', `Eventually `malloc()'s All Computer Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow'. See also vi. |
| See: Electronic mail | |
| email address | The domain-based or UUCP address that is used to send electronic mail to a specified destination. For example an editor's address is "gmalkin@xylogics.com". See also: bang path, mail path, UNIX- to-UNIX CoPy. Source: ZEN |
| e-mail shorthand | Acronyms for commonly used phrases that one would otherwise type. Some of the most popular ones are: IMHO: In My Humble Opinion BTW: By The Way RTM: Read The Manual LOL: Laughing Out Loud FWIW: For What It's Worth ROTF = Rolling on the floor (laughing) RSN = Real soon now IMNSHO = In my not so humble opinion GMTA = Great minds think alike F2F = Face-to-face TTFN = Ta ta for now AFK = Away from keyboard/keys BRB = Be right back ROFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing |
| embedded hyperlink | A hyperlink that is incorporated into a line of text. |
| Emissary | An Internet suite from Attachmate which incorporates some of the latest technology into a Web browser, FTP, e-mail , and newsreader program. Emissary also features an exclusive "drag and drop" capability allowing users to download a file into any directory of their choosing. There is also an e-mail and newsgroup encoding and decoding of documents. |
| emotags | Mock HTML tags, such as < |
| emoticon or smiley | A symbol to compensate for the absence of nonverbal clues when communicating on the Internet. For example -g- signifies a "grin", :} or :-} a "smile", when inserted in the text of an e-mail message and alerts the reader not to take it seriously. Here is a short list: :) = smile ;) = wink :D = laughing :( = frown :'( = crying >:-} is a devil 0:-) is an angel { } = hug :* = kiss :X = my lips are sealed :P = sticking out tongue SEE ALSO: e-mail shorthand |
| encapsulation | The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information to the protocol data unit (PDU) from the layer above. As an example, in Internet terminology, a packet would contain a header from the physical layer, followed by a header from the network layer (IP), followed by a header from the transport layer (TCP), followed by the application protocol data. Source: RFC1208 |
| encryption | Encryption is the manipulation of a packet's data in order to prevent any but the intended recipient from reading that data. There are many types of data encryption, and they are the basis of network security. See also: Data Encryption Standard and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). |
| EPS or .eps | Encapsulated Postscript - A type of graphics file written in the PostScript language. |
| e-text | A text document in electronic form. An e-text may take the form of a short pamphlet, a README file or a note. |
| Ethernet | A 10-Mb/s standard for LANs, initially developed by Xerox, and later refined by Digital, Intel and Xerox (DIX). All hosts are connected to a coaxial cable where they contend for network access using a Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) paradigm. The most common form of Ethernet is called 10BaseT, which denotes a peak transmission speed of 10 mbps using copper twisted-pair cable. See also: 802.x, Local Area Network, token ring. |
| Ethernet meltdown | An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, on an Ethernet. It usually results from illegal or misrouted packets and typically lasts only a short time. Source:COMER |
| Eudora | The #1 e-mail application on the Internet. It is manufactured and distributed by Qualcomm Enterprises. The Eudora e-mail application is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Newton users. Eudora Pro is the commercial version and includes special features that are not in Eudora Light, the freeware version. |
| European Academic and Research Network (EARN) | A network connecting European academic and research institutions with electronic mail and file transfer services using the BITNET protocol. See also: BITNET |
| external viewer | This is the program that is launched or used by Web browsers such as Mosaic for presenting graphics, audio, video, VRML, and other multimedia found on the Internet. Sometimes referred to as helper applications. Usually when you initially setup your browser you configure what external viewers you want to use by associating a program with a file type or extension. This way the browser knows what to do when these files are "clicked on" by the user. |
| extensions | The characters after the dot in a file's name are considered it's extension. This is used to determine how the file is formatted and viewed. For example a file named netlingo.html means that the file is coded in HTML and therefore must be viewed with a compatible program such as a Web browser in order to see it properly. On the Internet you will come across many different file extensions such as .dcr, .mov, .avi and .au. In order to properly handle these files your browser must be configured to recognize these extensions. SEE ALSO: MIME. |
| Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) | A standard character-to-number encoding used primarily by IBM computer systems. See also: ASCII. |
| Extended Four Letter Acronym (EFLA) | A recognition of the fact that there are far too many TLAs. See also: Three Letter Acronym. Source: K. Morgan |
| Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) | A protocol which distributes routing information to the routers which connect autonomous systems. The term "gateway" is historical, as "router" is currently the preferred term. There is also a routing protocol called EGP defined in STD 18, RFC 904. See also: Autonomous System, Border Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol. |
| eXternal Data Representation (XDR) | A standard for machine independent data structures developed by Sun Microsystems and defined in RFC 1014. It is similar to ASN.1. See also: Abstract Syntax Notation One. Source: RFC1208 |
| extranet | The connecting of two or more intranets. If you think of an intranet as a company's internal Web site which allows users inside the company to communicate and exchange information, now imagine connecting that virtual space with another company's intranet, thus allowing these two (or more) companies to share resources and communicate over the Internet in their own virtual space. This technology greatly enhances business to business communications. Companies like Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and VeriSign announced support for a core set of open standards for enabling external networks (extranets). |
| e-zine | electronic magazine - sometimes reffered to as just zine it is an electronic publication or a magazine published in electronic form. An online magazine. There are dozens of e-zines published on a regular basis on the Internet. Topics range from science-fiction-inspired poetry to the angst of living in the digital age, and beyond. SEE ALSO: e-journal. |
