Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

Glossary of Internet Terms

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Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

A standard industry protocol for the inquiry, distribution, retrieval, and posting of news articles.

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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