| Word |
Description |
| ICANN |
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also know as ICANN serves as the governing body for Domain Name registration. |
| IEEE |
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional organization which sets standards for telecommunications and computers. |
| IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol (sometimes listed as Internet Mail Access Protocol). A mail protocol that provides management of received messages on a remote server. The user can review headers, create or delete folders/mailboxes and messages, and search contents remotely without downloading. |
| inlining |
The practice of putting an IMG tag in a web page that calls a graphic from another site. Many sites, particularly those offering free storage, now view this as bandwidth theft and block remote IMG calls from other sites to their site. It is particularly bad netiquette and very likely a copyright violation to display a graphic called from someone else's web page. |
| integer |
A positive, negative or equal to zero number without a fractional part.
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| Internet |
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
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| Intranet |
A network of networks that interconnects within a single widespread organization and uses the Internet Protocol (IP). The sites within an Intranet are generally closed to the Internet and are accessible to organization members only. |
| IRC |
Internet Relay Chat. An Internet protocol that allows people all over the world to meet in conference groups (called channels) and chat with each other by typing. |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network. A technology that carries data over phone lines at up to 128Kbps for dialup users, but extends to fast broadband communications, too. |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider. |
| IXC |
Inter eXchange Carrier. Another name for a long distance telephone company. |
