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ActiveX
ActiveX is a code that defines Microsoft's interaction between web servers, clients, add-ins and Microsoft Office applications.
See Also:Java

Address
An address in a unique identifier assigned to a web page. The address is more commonly referred to as the URL (Uniformed Resource Locator).

ADN
(Advanced Digital Network) Often refers to 56kbps leased line

Applet
A multimedia application written or embedded in the Java language such as animation or sound, viewable only in a Java-enabled browser (most, if not all modern browsers are Java-enabled).

Anonymous FTP
Users may gain access to a remote server using FTP without actually having an account on that server. The user's E-mail address is usually given as a password and the user name 'anonymous' is assigned to the user by systems supporting this service.

Archie
A database of anonymous ftp sites and their contents, "Archie" keeps track of the entire contents of these sites, and allows users to search for files on those sites using various different kinds of filename searches.

Archive
Often compressed, archives are usually large files containing several smaller files. Commonly used archive file formats are ZIP, TAR, TGZ and BZ2.

Archive Site
Contains archived files of many kinds, available for users to download either by FTP or E-mail.

ARJ
Allows the user to store one or more files in a compressed format in an archive file. This saves space both in the compression and in the saving of disk sector clusters. Particularly strong compressing databases, uncompressed graphics files, and large documents. Named after the creator, American programmer Robert Jung.

ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) US governmental organization responsible for creating an experimental network which heralded the beginning of the Internet. Now known as Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.

ARPAnet
Network created by ARPA in 1969, primarily allowing data transfer between Government laboratories. (Now defunct).

ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) a file containing only text characters: numbers, letters, and standard punctuation.

ATM
(Asynchronous Transfer Mode) a new communications standard that is currently in the later stages of development. ATM is designed to transfer voice, video, and other multimedia data that requires short bursts of large quantities of data that can survive small losses but must be broadcast in real time.

Attachments
Multimedia files that are 'attached' to an E-mail; can be text, graphics, sound, video, spreadsheet, database, or even an entire application.

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