SEO Glossary - Letter N
Net
Short for Internet.
netizen
Citizen of the Internet.
Netscape
A WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape (tm) browser was originally based on the Mosaic program developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Netscape has grown in features rapidly and is widely recognized as the best and most popular web browser. Netscape corporation also produces web server software.
Netscape provided major improvements in speed and interface over other browsers, and has also engendered debate by creating new elements for the HTML language used by Web pages -- but the Netscape extensions to HTML are not universally supported.
The main author of Netscape, Mark Andreessen, was hired away from the NCSA by Jim Clark, and they founded a company called Mosaic Communications and soon changed the name to Netscape Communications Corporation.
newsgroup
Collection of information and users who get together to communicate about one particular subject.
NFS
(Network File System) In Internet protocol used to share files among different hosts.
NIC
(Networked Information Center) -- Generally, any office that handles information for a network. The most famous of these on the Internet is the InterNIC, which is where new domain names are registered.
Another definition: NIC also refers to Network Interface Card which plugs into a computer and
adapts the network interface to the appropriate standard. ISA, PCI, and PCMCIA cards are all examples of NICs.
NNTP
(Network News Transfer Protocol) The protocol used to transfer Usenet pieces on the Internet.
NOC
(Network Operations Center) A site or group that is responsible for the daily care and maintenance of a network.
node
One computer (or other peripheral) within a network.
NREN
(National Research and Education Network) A US attempt to link networks operated by different federal agencies into a single high-speed network.
NSAPI
Netscape Commerce and Enterprise Server
NSFNet
(National Science Foundation Network) Currently the Internet backbone network of the United States.
NTP
(Network Time Protocol) A protocol used to synchronize time between computers on the Internet
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