Internet communication

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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write error

Internet; Internet communication

An error that occurs during the transfer of data.

write mode

Internet; Internet communication

Allows users to edit and then save files.

write protect

Internet; Internet communication

A means of preventing users from editing files or saving files to a storage medium. Information can be write-protected. On networks, sharing software can establish security settings that provide ...

write-back cache

Internet; Internet communication

A portion of memory that temporarily holds data until it can be permanently saved, usually when there is a decrease in a system's activity. This delay improves system performance over that which ...

x-y coordinates

Internet; Internet communication

Refers to points along the horizontal and the vertical axes of the computer screen, usually starting in the lower-left corner of the screen. Each pixel (the color dots that make up the screen ...

yoke

Internet; Internet communication

An input device used with computer games, typically with flight simulation games, that allows the user to fly up or down, back or forward by pulling or pushing the steering wheel-like device.

yottabyte

Internet; Internet communication

The largest measurement of computer storage, representing 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes, or about 10 to the 24th power. Currently, the largest hard drives have storage up to one terabyte, ...