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applet
Derived from the diminutive of "application," this small Java program is often embedded in HTML pages. In contrast to full-fledged Java applications, applets are denied access to many local computer resources.

application
Another way to say computer program, sometimes truncated informally to "app."

Archie
Software that uses file names or substrings to search for files at anonymous FTP sites.


article
A message posted to a newsgroup.


ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The world standard for 128 codes that computers use to display all the letters, punctuation marks, and numbers in Western languages. Each code can be represented by a seven-digit binary number.


attachment
A file which is attached to, and then sent along with, an email message. Any kind of file can be attached — text, graphics, sound, HTML — but some attachments are too large to send.


attributes
In HTML, attributes are added to some tags to allow extra formatting options. An attribute is included after the command word and before the tag's closing angled bracket. You may use more than one attribute for one tag. See also values.

.avi
This extension means that the file is a video clip stored in the Video for Windows format. Media Player for Windows 95 is one program that will play these files. On the Mac, you can view them using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Apple's QuickTime MoviePlayer version 3.0.