- IBT
- See internet based training.
- Icon
- Mnemonic convention to replace functional names by
images.
- IDE
- See integrated drive electronics.
- Identity Hacking
- See social hacking.
- IMAP
- See internet mail access protocol.
- IMHO
- Net-language for ``in my humble opinion".
- Index
- A searchable database of documents created
automatically or manually by a search engine.
- Integrated Drive Electronics
- A 16-bit parallel interface transferring only data.
Cheaper than ESDI medium-range capacity (40-200Mb). Can't perform a physical
(low-level) format because it is not a device-level interface.
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- Digital version of the good old analogue telephone
line.
- International Organization for
Standardization
- A federation of national standards bodies such as
BSI and ANSI.
- Internet
- The computer network for business and leisure based
on the TCP/IP protocol. All other computer networks have become irrelevant. Evolved
from ARPAnet. See also ARPANet, network, TCP/IP.
- Internet Based Training
- Evolution of the computer based training, which
offers real-time learning over the Internet with a teacher. See also computer
based training.
- Internet Mail Access Protocol
- RFC 1730[-33
- IMAP4 allows a client to access and manipulate
electronic mail messages on a server. This should be viewed as a superset of the
POP3. The IMAP4 server listens on TCP port 143. IMAP is definitely an emerging
technology and functionally completely outperforms the older POP environment.
- Internet Protocol
- See TCP/IP.
- Internet Protocol Number
- Unique address for every computer connected to the
Internet. Currently it is composed of a series of four numbers, separated by dots.
Example: 127.0.0.1. Domain names refer to IP numbers. See also domain name,
internet, TCP/IP.
- Internet Relay Chat
- Multi-user chat facility on the Internet. Many
servers around the world are interconnected to allow hundreds of thousands of users
to chat at the same time. Special IRC clients are necessary to connect.
- Internet Service Provider
- Company providing access to the Internet.
- Internet Society
- Non-governmental international organization for
global co-operation and co-ordination of the Internet and its technologies and
applications.
- Intranet
- Private network that is based on the same
technologies as the Internet, but restricted to a certain user group. See also
internet, network.
- IP
- See internet protocol.
- IRC
- See internet relay chat.
- ISDN
- See integrated services digital network.
- ISO
- See international organization for standardization.
- ISOC
- See internet society.
- ISP
- See internet service provider.
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