A Dictionary of the Internet

by Darrel Ince (Editor)

Overview

This dictionary provides thousands of terms related to the Web, software technology, jargon, e-commerce, security, and the technical and organizational infrastructure of the Internet. There are also useful links to relevant websites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192556455
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	12/07/2017
Series:	Oxford Quick Reference Online
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	658 KB

About the Author

Darrel Ince is Emeritus Professor of Computing at the Open University. He has written over 20 books and edited the computation papers of Alan Turing. He researches software engineering topics and has published over 100 research articles.

Editorial Reviews

The author of a number of programming manuals, Ince (computing, Open Univ., UK) here defines over 4000 Internet-related terms. The print dictionary is supplemented both by a companion web site and an included CD-ROM (not seen), which contains the text of the book in browsable format (with hyperlinks to more information online). These associated resources should help alleviate some of the difficulties in producing an up-to-date printed compilation of Internet terminology. Some outdated information, however, should have been caught before publication; Ince defines DejaNews, for example, without noting that Deja.com's Usenet service and archive were acquired and subsumed by Google in February 2001. Appendixes clarify popular online abbreviations and emoticons (although the emoticon section seems somewhat brief) and provide a list of two-letter country codes. Some minor inconsistencies plague this otherwise useful dictionary; abbreviations, for example, have fairly consistent See references to full definitions under the terms to which they refer, while definitions of the full terms may or may not include the associated abbreviation. The title is somewhat narrower in scope than other similar works, such as Dictionary of Computer & Internet Terms (Barrons, 2000. 7th ed.), but this allows more comprehensive attention to relevant terms, from jargon and acronyms to basic terminology to more obscure items. Definitions of most terms can be found at freely accessible online resources such as the Free Online Dictionary of Computing (www.foldoc.org), so this book is recommended for both public and academic libraries where a print resource is needed to supplement online content or where the sometimes more thorough definitions in this title may be useful. Rachel Singer Gordon, Franklin Park P.L., IL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

"Internet-speak finds a dictionary home to call its own....Author Darrel Ince offers thousands of definitions."—Chicago tribune

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