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Maillist
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(or Mailing List) A
(usually automated) system that allows people to
send e-mail to one address, whereupon their
message is copied and sent to all of the other
subscribers to the maillist. In this way, people
who have many different kinds of e-mail
access can participate in discussions
together.
See Also:
E-mail
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MIDI
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A file format used to store
music information.
See Also:
MIME
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MIME
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Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions -- The standard for attaching non-text
files to standard Internet mail messages.
Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets,
formatted word-processor documents, sound files,
etc.
An e-mail program is
said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and
receive files using the MIME standard.
When non-text files are sent
using the MIME standard they are converted
(encoded) into text - although the resulting text
is not really readable.
Generally speaking the MIME
standard is a way of specifying both the type of
file being sent (e.g. a QuicktimeÅ video
file), and the method that should be used to turn
it back into its original form.
Besides e-mail
software, the MIME standard is also universally
used by Web Servers to identify the
files they are sending to Web
Clients, in this way new file formats can be
accommodated simply by updating the
Browsers’ list of pairs of MIME-Types
and appropriate software for handling each
type.
See Also:
Browser,
Client,
Server,
Binhex,
UUENCODE,
E-mail,
Internet
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Mirror
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Generally speaking, “to
mirror” is to maintain an exact copy of
something. Probably the most common use of the term
on the Internet refers to “mirror
sites” which are web sites, or FTP
sites that maintain exact copies of material
originated at another location, usually in order to
provide more widespread access to the
resource.
Another common use of the
term “mirror” refers to an arrangement
where information is written to more than one hard
disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the
computer keeps on working without losing
anything.
See Also:
FTP,
Web,
Web
Site
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Modem
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MOdulator, DEModulator -- A
device that you connect to your computer and to a
phone line, that allows the computer to talk to
other computers through the phone system.
Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone
does for humans.
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Monthly
Bandwidth Use
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Bandwidth use is a measure of
the network's resources, usually measured in
megabits (Mb) or gigabits
(Gb) and that represents the amount of data
sent and received by the server, more
"hits" on a site also means more
bandwidth used, every page viewed by the
Web Surfers is sent over the network
and uses some of the bandwidth.
See Also:
Network,
Bandwidth,
Hit,
Server,
Kilobyte,
Megabyte,
Gigabyte
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MOO
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Mud, Object Oriented -- One
of several kinds of multi-user role-playing
environments, so far only text-based.
See Also:
MUD,
MUSE
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Mosaic
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The first WWW browser
that was available for the Macintosh, Windows, and
UNIX all with the same interface. Mosaic
really started the popularity of the Web.
The source-code to Mosaic has been licensed by
several companies and there are several other
pieces of software as good or better than Mosaic,
most notably, Netscape.
See Also:
Browser,
Client,
WWW,
Netscape,
Web,
UNIX
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MUD
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Multi-User Dungeon or
Dimension -- A (usually text-based) multi-user
simulation environment. Some are purely for fun and
flirting, others are used for serious software
development, or education purposes and all that
lies in between. A significant feature of most MUDs
is that users can create things that stay after
they leave and which other users can interact with
in their absence, thus allowing a world to be built
gradually and collectively.
See Also:
MOO
, MUSE
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MUSE
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Multi-User Simulated
Environment -- One kind of MUD - usually
with little or no violence.
See Also:
MOO
, MUD
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