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Techxicon

Sharpen your TQ. Find out tech terms and what they mean

Tag

On clothes, tags usually indicate the brand, size of the garment, fabrics used, and the washing instructions. In Web pages, tags indicate what should be

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T3

What about T2, you ask? For some reason, there just is no such thing. (There was probably some legal dispute about it involving the name

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T1

This is a data transfer system that transfers digital signals at 1.544 megabits per second (quite a bit faster than a 56K modem, which maxes

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SYN Flood

A SYN flood is a type of denial of service (DoS) attack that sends a series of “SYN” messages to a computer, such as a web server. SYN

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Streaming

Data streaming, commonly seen in the forms of audio and video streaming, is when a multimedia file can be played back without being completely downloaded

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Static Website

A static website contains Web pages with fixed content. Each page is coded in HTML and displays the same information to every visitor. Static sites are the most basic

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SSL

Stands for “Secure Sockets Layer.” SSL is a secure protocol developed for sending information securely over the Internet. Many websites use SSL for secure areas

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SSH

Stands for “Secure Shell.” SSH is a method of securely communicating with another computer. The “secure” part of the name means that all data sent

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Spoofing

The word “spoof” means to hoax, trick, or deceive. Therefore, in the IT world, spoofing refers tricking or deceiving computer systems or other computer users. This is

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Spider

A spider is a software program that travels the Web (hence the name “spider”), locating and indexing websites for search engines. All the major search

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