Jargon
- IT
- Information Technology
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit
- BTW
- By The Way
- Hardware
- All the physical computer bits − you can touch them
- Software
- programs that work (or don't) on your computer
- Adware
- programs that serve you ads, but are otherwise free
- Liteware
- programs that have limited functions in the free version
- Crippleware
- software with critical features disabled eg save or print
- Malware
- the worst category of spyware, a security nightmare
- Linkrot
- Links (blue-underlined text) that used to work, but are now broken
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- XHTML
- eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- WAI
- Web Accessibility Initiative
- Browser
- Program (software) used to surf the internet (eg Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape)
- PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant - Handheld electronic device: Appointments Calendar, Diary, Contacts List, and much more
- OSS
- Open Source Software - generally free software, the source code is publicly available