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Dictionaries  |  Further Reading

Dictionaries

  • PC Webopedia

    •         http://www.pcwebopedia.com/
    For thorough, nontechnical definitions to computer terms, followed by links to web pages related to the subject of the terminology you are seeking
     
  • Netlingo: Internet Language Dictionary

    •         http://www.netlingo.com/
     
  • Free Online Dictionary of Computing

    •         http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Free+On-line+Dictionary
            Also: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
     
  • Third Age Online Signs and Symbols Glossary

    •         http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/netglos/index.html
    Contains definitions to emoticons and abbreviations often used in Emails and chats.  Also contains a brief quiz on these symbols as well.
    Further Reading
    Search Engines
  • Steinberg, Steve G. "Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe)." Wired 4.5 (May 1996): 11 p.

    •         http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/4.05/indexweb.html
    This article talks about the beginnings of web directories such as Yahoo! and Excite and discusses the difficulties in indexing the World Wide Web.
     
  • Sonnereich, Wes.  A History of Search Engines.  24 Feb. 2000

    •         http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/sonnenreich/webdev/history.html
    This article sums up the history of the development of the Search Engine, highlighting those search engines that changed the way the Internet could be searched.