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MPEG:
Moving Pictures Expert Group--another video format. There's an MPEG2 also, presumably the love child of MPEG.
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ISP:
Internet Service Provider, the company or organization through which you access the Web
SERVER:
The computer that sends you pages of SLATE
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FTP:
File Transfer Protocol, a tried, true, and reasonably efficient method of downloading files from servers
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HTML:
Hypertext Markup Language, the language of Web pages
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New Age bed-and-breakfast:
No, no, it's a joke.
HTTP:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the way information travels across the Web