First published in 1981, the 9th Edition in 2001 was the last book with the glossary title. The book evolved into Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (CDE), and floppy disk and CD-ROM versions became ...

A domain name represents the Internet Protocol address (more on that later) of a computer, server or website -- because typing in "cnet.com" is much easier than remembering and entering a long ...

This glossary is regularly updated ... algorithm: A series of instructions that allows a computer program to learn and analyze data in a particular way, such as recognizing patterns, to then ...

When an internal computer wants to access the Internet, the Firewall will translate the internal computers address to the public address given to the Firewall. An example would be if your home ...

World Wide Web is the vast amount of computers, that are acting as web servers, which use the protocol HTTP to transfer documents to a user's computer to be viewed with a web browser. The ...

The floppy disk version of "The Computer Glossary," the origin of this encyclopedia. Long gone with the demise of floppies, Electronic Computer Glossary came out first for DOS in 1990 and then ...