Glossary - Web Terminology
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Bandwidth
How much data you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. Sometimes it refers to thousands of bytes per sec (kB), the page referred to would be 2Kb.
Beta
The last software testing phase before a production rollout.
Browser
A software program that can request, load and display html documents (Netscape, Mosaic, Microsoft Explorer, for example).
Bug
A mistake, or unexpected occurrence, in a piece of software or hardware.
Button
Clickable navigation element and the smallest ad unit of the Web.
BYTE
A byte is a series of 8 bits. Also called a character. Computer storage space is measured in bytes. A kilobyte (or 1 KB) represents 1024 bytes. A megabyte (1 MB) represents 1024 KB. A gigabyte represents 1024 MB.
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