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Net
The Net is a common term for the Internet.

Netiquette
The ethical and cultural rules of using the Internet, such as not posting advertisements to Usenet discussion groups (unless they allow them), not posting the same message to several newsgroups, avoidance of ‘shouting’ in e-mails (using nothing but capital letters), avoiding sending unsolicited e-mails, etc.

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).

Networking
A network is nothing more than two or more computers joined together by a cable and software. They can then share information, like a customer database, and peripherals, like printers and CD-ROM writers. They can share software programs, such as work processing packages, and communicate using e-mail.

Network card
A wafer-shaped piece of hardware that enables a computer to be linked up, via cabling, to other machines in the network.

Newsgroup
A global bulletin board where like-minded people share ideas, information and experiences by email.