Letter: N
NAT
Short for network address translation, a NAT server acts as a transition point between your local LAN and the Internet at large. The NAT server converts all of the IP addresses on your local LAN to one single IP address. When NAT is active, your LAN appears and acts as one entity when viewed from the Internet. The NAT server continues to resolve individual local addresses when requests from the Internet are received.
Net
Though it began as a Web-based programming platform primarily used to develop Web applications, .NET is a flexible platform introduced by Microsoft that allows programs written in different languages to be compiled to run under .NET environments. The .NET platform can be used to develop programs for the Web, desktops, handhelds, telephones or any other device that is Web-enabled.
Net
Short for Internet.
NetCaster
Netcaster is Netscape Communicator's push delivery system. It's basically a Web environment that is always active and can update its onscreen appearance without going to a new URL or reloading. Like all push mechanisms, Netcaster doesn't require the user to manually check for new content or sit through an update. It lets the developer put new content in front of users instead of hoping they come looking for it.
Netiquette
The etiquette on the Internet.
Netizen
Derived from the term citizen, referring to a citizen of the Internet, or someone who uses networked resources. The term connotes civic responsibility and participation
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.
Network
Any time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they can share resources, you have a computer network. Connect 2 or more networks together and you have an internet.
Newbie
You!
Newsgroup
The name for discussion groups on USENET.
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.
NFS
(Network File System) A set of protocols that offers users access to other files on other networked computers as if they were local.
nic
(network interface card) The hardware that connects an individual computer to a network. See Ethernet
NIC
(Network Information Center) An electronic site where users can hunt down information about specific capabilities of a network. NICs are customarily maintained by regional networks and by institutions. The US national NIC is backed financially by the National Science Foundation, and is called the InterNIC.
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 Transport Protocol) -- The protocol used by client and server software to carry USENET postings back and forth over a TCP/IP network. If you are using any of the more common software such as Netscape, Nuntius, Internet Explorer, etc. to participate in newsgroups then you are benefiting from an NNTP connection.
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.
Node
Any single computer connected to 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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