Letters from our readers.
July 25 1996 3:30 AM

 

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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

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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.

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HTTP:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the way information travels across the Web

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