Techy+Terms

This page was created to provide a glossary of sorts for terms and acronyms used in the world of technology.

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=__Cloud computing__ refers to __[|applications]__ and services offered over the Internet. These services are offered from data centers all over the world, which collectively are referred to as the "cloud." This metaphor represents the intangible, yet universal nature of the Internet.=

=A __cookie__ is a small amount of data generated by a [|website] and saved by your [|web browser]. Its purpose is to remember information about you, similar to a preference file created by a software [|application].= =While cookies serve many functions, their most common purpose is to store [|login] information for a specific site. Some sites will save both your [|username] and [|password] in a cookie, while others will only save your username. Whenever you check a box that says, "**Remember me on this computer**," the website will generate a login cookie once you successfully log in.=

=A __404 error__ is a common website error message that indicates a [|webpage] cannot be found. It may be produced when a user clicks an outdated (or "broken") [|link] or when a [|URL] is typed incorrectly in a Web browser's address field.=

=PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format developed by [|Adobe] as a means of distributing compact, platform-independent documents. It is superficially similar to HTML; a PDF document may contain images and text, as well as hyperlinks. However, as PDF is based on a variant of PostScript, each document is self-contained, packing text, graphics, and fonts into a single file. A PDF is read only.=

=URL (Uniform Resource Locator) A URL is the address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet.=