Web Definitions
NNavigator -- See Netscape Navagator.
NCSA -- Acronym for National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, an interdisciplinary group consisting of scientists, artists, engineers, educators, and others involved in computational science. Birthplace of Mosaic.
Net vet -- An Internet user since bee-fore the introduction of the World Wide Web.
NETctar -- Quality Web sites and pages with useful content (coined by Míc Miller).
Netiquette -- Internet manners, a set of rules of acceptable behavior on the Internet that cautions users against using abusive or offensive language in electronic communications, invading privacy, sending out undesirable and unsolicited information, and more.
Netizen -- A citizen of the Internet. A person who has made the Internet a part of their lifestyle. The term connotes civic responsibility and participation.
Netscape Navagator -- A Web browser. See browser.
network -- Two or more computers connected together to share resources. Two or more networks are an intranet. See intranet.
newbie -- A newcomer or someone just getting started on the Internet.
news server -- A machine that collects postings, sorts them, and passes them along to other servers required to use Usenet.
newsgroup -- A public message board or a discussion group on USENET.
NIC -- Acronym for Networked Information Center, an office that handles information for a network. Acronym for Network Interface Card that plugs into a computer and adapts the network interface to the appropriate standard (for example: ISA, PCI, PCMCIA).
NNTP -- Acronym for Net News Transfer Protocol, a protocol used by client and server software to carry USENET postings over a TCP / IP network. See news server.
node -- A computer accessible via a telephone line and used to connect to a network. See access number.
NOY -- Acronym for Not Online Yet, the notice for the expected arrival of a Web page or site (coined by Míc Miller).
NOY page -- A Web page that tells the user a link is pending.
NSFNet -- Abbreviation for National Science Foundation Network, which linked researchers with high-speed supercomputer centers and, for a time, was the "backbone" of the Internet.
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