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New Glossary words
Phil Started conversation Oct 21, 1999
How about adding RFC to the glossary. The RFC is a Request For Comments. These are really what all the important internet standards are referenced by. There are RFCs on all things to do with the internet, some serious (RFC1939, Post Office Protocol v3 - the standard a lot of people use for collecting email), some not so serious (RFC1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - pigeon post anyone 
) and mostly informational (RFC2555 30 years of RFCs)
Also an update to the glossary should be undertaken withe Linux entry. Linux is not UNIX, it is a unix like operating system and can't describe itself as UNIX due to a whole host of copyright and certification issues, which the developers tend to ignore because they have got better things to do than get into political wrangling over names, like make it even an even better systemm than it currently is.
New Glossary words
Lucifer Posted Jul 10, 2000
CGI - common gateway interface
Perl - nifty programming language
XML - extensible markup language
WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get (as in HTML editors)
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