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Internet Glossary - U

Find below all entries for the letter U. If you want to add a new word or add content to an existing word, please go to the glossary submission.

Unicode
Text encoding scheme including international characters and alphabets.
Uniform Resource Locator
Addressing scheme on the Internet to locate Internet resources.
Universal Serial Bus
Serial interface that allows connection of up to 127 devices at speeds of either 1.5 or 12Mbits/s. It supplies power for those devices and allows the devices to be added and removed without rebooting.
Unix
Operating System, developed in the early seventies.
Unix to Unix Copy
Software to exchange e-mail and news on a store-and-forward basis.
Unix to Unix Decoding
Method of converting text files to binary files. See also binhex, MIME.
Unix to Unix Encoding
Method of converting binary files to text files. See also binhex, MIME.
URL
See uniform resource locator.
USB
See universal serial bus.
USENET
A decentralized world-wide system for newsgroups. See also newsgroups.
UUCP
See unix to unix copy.
UUDECODE
See unix to unix decoding.
UUENCODE
See unix to unix encoding.

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