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| INTERNET DICTIONARY - LETTER "L" | |
| L8R | Later - A shorthand appended to a comment written in an online forum. |
| lagging | A frozen time span. |
| lamer | A user who behaves in a stupid or uneducated manner, a description often applied to newbies. |
| LAN | See: Local Area Network |
| latency | In networking, latency and bandwidth are the two factors that determine the speed of your connection. Latency is the time it takes for a data packet to move across a network connection. |
| layer | Communication networks for computers may be organized as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer (also called level). The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user applications. Each layer builds on the layer beneath it. For each layer, programs at different hosts use protocols appropriate to the layer to communicate with each other. TCP/IP has five layers of protocols; OSI has seven. The advantages of different layers of protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication programs. See also: Open Systems Interconnection, TCP/IP Protocol Suite. |
| leased line | Refers to a dedicated phone line that is rented for exclusive 24-hour, 7-days-a-week use from your location to another location. |
| link | or hyperlink is text you find on a Web site which can be "clicked on" with a mouse which in turn will take you to another Web page or a different area of the same Web page. Links are also used to load multimedia files such as AVI movies and AU sound files. Links appear on most Web browsers as highlighted text, buttons, or icons. SEE ALSO: broken links. |
| Lists | Lists are servers which maintain a subscription list of email addresses. Anyone on the list can typically send an email message to the server and have it distributed to everyone else on the list. The principal programs which act as servers for this purpose are called Listserv, Listproc, and Majordomo. Listserv and Listproc are both sometimes used generically in speech for all email lists. |
| listserv | An automated mailing list distribution system originally designed for the Bitnet/EARN network. See also: Bitnet, European Academic Research Network, mailing list. |
| Listserv | A software program for setting up and maintaining discussion groups. Many LISTSERV discussion groups are gatewayed to USENET newsgroups. |
| Listserv Lists (or listservers) | Electronic discussion of technical and nontechnical issues conducted by electronic mail over BITNET using LISTSERV protocols. Similar lists, often using the UNIX readnews or rn facility, are available exclusively on the Internet. Internet users may subscribe to BITNET listservers. Participants subscribe via a central service, and lists often have a moderator who manages the information flow and content. |
| little-endian | A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the least significant byte (bit) comes first. See also: big-endian. Source: RFC1208 |
| live | When used in reference to a World Wide Web file, this term designates an object linked to another layer of information or describes when a particular Web site will be placed on the Internet such as "it's going live next week." |
| LiveImage | A graphical editor for World Wide Web clickable imagemaps. Until recently server-side imagemaps required the author to install them separately on the server. But with LiveImage and the latest Web browsers, you can use client-side imagemaps, which reside in your HTML page and are very easy to create. LiveImage will also create server-side maps for backwards compatibility with old browsers. You can download an evaluation copy right now. |
| Live3D | Live3D extends Navigator 3.0 into the 3D realm. With this VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) viewer, you can experience a rich new world of 3D spaces and interact with text, images, animation, sound, music, and even video. |
| LLC | See: Logical Link Control |
| load | On the WWW, HTML documents and graphics are "loaded into the browser" whenever a URL is accessed. |
| Local Area Network (LAN) | A local area network is a short-distance network used to link a group of computers together within a building. 10BaseT Ethernet is the most commonly used form of LAN. A piece of hardware called a hub serves as the common wiring point, enabling data to be sent from one machine to another over the network. LANs are typically limited to distances of less than 500 meters and provide low-cost, high-bandwidth networking capabilities within a small geographical area. Because the network is known to cover only a small area, optimizations can be made in the network signal protocols that permit data rates up to 100Mb/s. See also: Ethernet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface, token ring, Wide Area Network. Source: NNSC |
| log | A file that keeps track of network connections. |
| Logical Link Control (LLC) | The upper portion of the datalink layer, as defined in IEEE 802.2. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the datalink service, usually the network layer. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the MAC sublayer. See also: 802.x, layer, Media Access Control. |
| login | or log in - The account name or username used to access a computer system. Used as a verb "to log in", the term means the act of typing in your username and password. |
| logon | The process of connecting to a network or remote system. |
| logoff | To disconnect from a network or remote system. |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud - This is a shorthand term used in postings and online chat (IRC to show appreciation of a witticism in a previous posting. SEE ALSO: e-mail shorthand. |
| Look@Me | Look@Me gives you the ability to view another user's screen anywhere in the world in real time. You can watch the screen activity taking place by another Look@Me user from within your Internet browser or as a standalone applet. Based on Farallon's award winning Timbuktu Pro software, Look@Me is a FREE real-time Internet collaboration tool allowing you to do things like edit documents, go over presentations, review graphics, or provide just-in-time training and support. Download Look@Me to expand your use of the Internet beyond Web browsing and e-mail. |
| lurk | Read messages in a Usenet newsgroup without ever saying anything. |
| lurker | A visitor to a newsgroup or online service who only reads what other people post but never posts his or her own messages, thus remaining anonymous. |
| Lurking | No active participation on the part of a subscriber to a mailing list or USENET newsgroup. A person who is lurking is just listening to the discussion. Lurking is encouraged for beginners who need to get up to speed on the history of the group. See also: Electronic Mail, mailing list, Usenet. Source: LAQUEY |
| LViewPro | A shareware graphics viewer/editor program for Microsoft Windows. Often used as a helper application or program for Web browsers, the program can read JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PBM, PGM, PPM, Targa files. The reason LViewPro is so popular is because of it's ability to create transparent GIFs. |
| Lycos | A database of more than 3.5 million Web sites. This widely used search engine has answered over 9 million queries to date. You can set custom search configurations to help you find what you're looking for. |
| Lynx | Lynx is a text-based World Wide Web browser. Unlike Netscape, it cannot display images or handle Java, but it is much faster as a result. |
