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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A format for pictures transmitted pixel by pixel over the Net. Created by CompuServe, the GIF specification was put into the public domain, but Unisys found that it had a patent on the compression technology used. This stimulated the development of PNG.

GILC (Global internet liberty campaign)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A group that has been laudably vocal in support of individual rights on the Net (though occasionally tending to throw out the baby with the bathwater).

The GILC home page

graphics

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

Two- or three-dimensional images, typically drawings or photographs. See also GIF , PNG , SVG , and VRML .

Graphics on the Web

HTML (Hypertext markup language)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A computer language for representing the contents of a page of hypertext; the language that most Web pages are currently written in.

The HTML home page

HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A computer protocol for transferring information across the Net in such a way as to meet the demands of a global hypertext system. Part of the original design of the Web, continued in a W3C activity, and now a HTTP 1.1 IETF draft standard.

HTTP home page

hypertext

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

Nonsequential writing; Ted Nelson's term for a medium that includes links. Nowadays it includes other media apart from text and is sometimes called hypermedia.

information space

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

The abstract concept of everything accessible using networks: the Web.

INRIA (Institut national de recherche en infomatique et automatique)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

The French national research laboratory for computer science and control. Cohost of W3C and developers of Amaya.

INRIA home page

internet

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A global network of networks through which computers communicate by sending information in packets. Each network consists of computers connected by cables or wireless links.

intranet

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A part of the Internet or part of the Web used internally within a company or organization.

IP (Internet protocol)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

The protocol that governs how computers send packets across the Internet. Designed by Vint Cerf and Bob Khan. (IP may also stand for intellectual property; see IPR.)

J. Postel, Internet Protocol September 1981 (Historical)

IPR (Intellectual property rights)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

The conditions under which the information created by one party may be appreciated by another party.

Intellectual Property Rights page at W3C

ISO (International standards organization)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

An international group of national standards bodies.

The ISO home page

ISO standards are available, on paper, for a fee.

ISP (Internet service provider)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

The party providing one with connectivity to the Internet. Some users have a cable or some sort of wireless link to their ISP. For others, their computer may dial an ISP by phone and send and receive Internet packets over the phone line; the ISP then forwards the packets over the Internet.

java

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

A programming language developed (originally as "Oak") by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. Designed for portability and usability embedded in small devices, Java took off as a language for small applications ("applets") that ran within a Web browser.

Sun's Java page

jigsaw

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

Open source Web server of great modularity, written in Java. From W3C and friends.

The Jigsaw home page

JPEG (Joint photographic experts group)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)

This group defined a format for encoding photographs that uses fewer bytes than the pixel-by-pixel approaches of GIF and PNG, without too much visible degradation in quality. The format (JFIF) is casually referred to as JPEG.