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Terms Letter: U Unicode A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. It maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits covers 32,768 codes, Unicode is large enough to include all the world’s languages, with the exception of ideographic languages that have a different character for…

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Terms Letter: V VBScript Short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, a scripting language developed by Microsoft and supported by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. VBScript is based on the Visual Basic programming language, but is much simpler. In many ways, it is similar to JavaScript. Yet, Netscape web browsers do…

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Terms Letter: W W3C World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the World Wide Web. WAN – Wide Area Network A Wide Area Network connects computers over a long distance via telephone lines or satellite link. Technically, the Internet itself is a gigantic, worldwide WAN…

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XML Extensible Markup Language. XML is a programming language that enables designers to create their own tags to indicate specific information. XML is intended to deliver information, not just pages. A lot content providing services use XML to deliver syndicate their content. XML/RSS reader A program designed to retrieve XML…

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ZIP A comressed file format. Both windows and linux applications are available. There is a nice windows based application named WinZIP which you can use to create ZIP files as well as view the contents of already created such files. ZIP functionality is bundled in the Windows XP operating system.…

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