Glossary

CyberU Glossary - B

bookmark
Also known as favorite places, they are electronic markers that you create to make it easy for you to revisit a web site on Tuesday, that you visit  today. Bookmarks are very powerful productivity tools if you take the time to learn the fine points.

bounced mail
If you write a bad check it comes bouncing back to you. If your email can't be delivered because  you wrote an incorrect address, the server is down, or any one of a number of different reasons, the mail will bounce back to you. You will find it waiting for you in your mailbox along with a message from the computer which bounced it.

browser
Any access to Internet requires some sort of software. A browser is a way of accessing Internet information that is stored on web pages. Netscape and MicroSoft Explorer are the two most popular browsers.  There are actually dozens of others, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the big two.

BTW
By the way, BTW is the Internet shortcut that means, By The Way.

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