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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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Internet communication

layout

Internet; Internet communication

The pattern in which the user places text and graphics on a page when publishing a document such as a magazine. The layout determines which points on a page will draw the eye and receive the most ...

leads

Internet; Internet communication

The metal pins or legs of an integrated circuit chip, including microprocessors.

leaf

Internet; Internet communication

A file at the bottom of a hierarchical file system that can have nothing below it. Using a tree structure analogy, the leaves connect to the branches, which connect to the roots.

leapfrog attack

Internet; Internet communication

In a leapfrog attack, a malicious user "borrows" a user ID and password from any of a number of sources, such as a file containing IDs and passwords, and uses it to penetrate another system. A user ...

letterbomb

Internet; Internet communication

This is an email that contains a program or other data that can damage a user's computer. When the letterbomb "goes off," the data may lock up the user's computer or carry out some other undesirable ...

lexicographic sort

Internet; Internet communication

An alphabetical listing of items. Numbers appear in a lexicographic sort according to their spelling.

lexicon

Internet; Internet communication

In relation to computers, the words and definitions that make up a programming language.

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