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What is the meaning of the common web terms starting with the letter A.

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ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
A special type of DSL line where the upload speed is different from the download speed. Usually the download speed is much greater.

Anchor
The same as hyperlinks, anchor refers to another web source no matter that it is some other place in the same web page, another web page or another website. Of course the anchor could link to another type of document as image, word, excel, pdf etc.

Anti-Virus Program
A computer program that is trying to discover and destroy all types of computer viruses, of course this is just a dream but is is strongly recommended to have some sort of it.

Apache
The most common web server software on the Internet

Archie
Is the archaic first Search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by three students at McGill University. Now Archie is a great tool to locate files that can be downloaded via FTP.

ARPANet
Abbreviation of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. (see more about ARPAnet) This is the precursor to the Internet. At the beginning it was an experiment in wide-area-networking with the goal to connect together computers that were each running different system so that people at one location could use computing resources from another location.

Avatar
It is the alter ego of the computer user. Commonly it is a small image that is used in blogs, forums and social network websites.