Newbie Terms

This time I am going to give some popular newbie terms everyone should know. Here they are:

• newbie - someone who is new to the Internet or new to computers in general; 
• access - to log on to the Internet, where you can browse information, view Web sites, retrieve data, and send or receive e-mail;
• B2B - an acronym that describes business-to-business relationships or applications;
• bookmark - a direct link to an often visited site, saved in your browser for easy access;
• debbie - a name for someone who is even newer than a newbie;
• e-commerce - simply put, it means conducting business online;
• encryption - the process of protecting information as it moves from one computer to another;
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) - a list of questions and answers related to a Web site, newsgroup, software, or any kind of product or service;
• OSP (Online Service Provider) - a company that provides customer-only content to subscribers of its service;
• P2P (Peer-to-Peer or Person-to-Person) - the ability of two or more computers to communicate on a network without a file server.  

This will be enough for today. Wait for some continuation next time.

NetLingo and Smileys

Today I’m going start giving information on the second part of my task. It means I will talk about NetLingo.

NetLingo is Internet slang. NetLingo means using symbols, smileys, acronyms and new words while communicating over the Internet. All these things prevent us from wasting our precious time while writing long words and sentences, in fact NetLingo makes online communication much easier and faster.

For those who don’t know, NetLingo is an online dictionary of more than 3000 terms. It has definitions that explain the online world of business, technology, communication as well as computer and Internet terms. It started in 1995 and is monthly updated.

My first note concerning this topic is going to be the things we all know very well and use often. They are smileys and emoticons.

A smiley is a sequence of characters on your computer keyboard. Smileys usually follow after the punctuation (or in place of the punctuation) at the end of a sentence and they show what we really mean, express our emotions.

Here are some of the smileys we don’t really often use (for us to know, remember and use):

@>--;--  A rose

~~8-O  Bad-Hair Day

(:-{~  Beard – long

:-.)  Cindy Crawford

:-6  Eating Something Spicy

=:-H  Football player

~~:-(  Getting Rained On

:0  Hungry

%+{  Lost a Fight

:-(*)  Makes Me Sick

:^)  Personality

:-C  Real Unhappy

$__$  Sees Money

:-a  Tongue Touching Nose

:-{}  Wearing Lipstick

…and this is not the whole list! :-)

P.S. Guess who is that (_8^(|)