IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)

Glossary of Internet Terms

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IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)

Each computer is assigned an IP address. These are similar to phone numbers. When you attempt to connect to an IP address, you will connect to the computer with that IP address.

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Other Interview Questions

• Alias
• anonymous FTP
• Archie
• ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
• Authentication
• Bandwidth
• BBS (Bulletin Board System)
• Bounce
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Cookies
• Data Encryption Key (DEK)
• Data Encryption Standard (DES)
• Datagram
• DSL (Digital subscriber line)
• DDN (Defense Data Network)
• DECnet
• Dedicated line
• Defense Data Network (DDN)
• DNS (Domain Name Service)
• E-mail
• Encryption
• Firewall
• Finger
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• Gopher
• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• IP (Internet Protocol)
• IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Intranet
• LAN (Local Area Network)
• Listserv
• Mailing list
• MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
• Mirror site
• NFS (Network File System)
• NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol)
• Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
• OpenURL
• Glossary Internet - PING
• POP (Post Office Protocol)
• PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
• Protocol
• URL rewriting
• Router
• SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol)
• SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
• Subnet mask (Address Mask)
• T1 and T3
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
• Telnet
• Token ring
• URL (Universal Resource Locator)
• UUCP (UNIX to UNIX Copy)
• WAIS (Wide Area Information Service)
• White Pages
• Winsocks
• Web Browser
• Web Page
• Web server
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange