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Internet communication
All the ways used by people to communicate with each other over the Internet, including e-mail, instant messaging (IM), feedback on blogs, contact forms on Web sites, industry forums, chat rooms and social networking sites.
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bucket
Internet; Internet communication
A colloquial term for storage. A hard drive or other mass storage medium can be referred to as a bucket for your information.
buddy list
Internet; Internet communication
A personalized list of contacts with whom to communicate online. Coined by AOL, a buddy list informs the user when a contact is logged into the network so the two acquaintances can converse online.
buffer
Internet; Internet communication
A temporary storage area in a computer's memory, usually RAM, that holds recent changes to files and other information to be written later to the hard drive. Because hard drives are relatively slow ...
buffer overflow
Internet; Internet communication
When a buffer receives all the data it can hold, it will stop accepting data. If it continues to accept data, the overflow will cause a loss of data and can crash the system.
bug
Internet; Internet communication
A flaw in an application or piece of hardware that causes a persistent malfunction or undesired result. Software bugs can be corrected by rewriting the software code. Hardware bugs are corrected by ...
bulk eraser
Internet; Internet communication
A device that uses electromagnetic energy to erase data from a magnetic storage medium such as diskettes or hard disks.
bullet
Internet; Internet communication
A small graphical element used to set off items in a list. Classic bullets are small filled-in circles, but bullets also can be squares or other shapes. Bullets often are used in word processing and ...
