Simple Service Discovery Protocol - network devices find each other

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - web browser / web server communication

Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol - internet ports, 12.8.18.14 type addresses, packets

Open Systems Interconnection - seven layer protocol stack

base 2, for example 0b0110 is 6 in base 10 (i.e. decimal)

base 16, for example 0xff is 255 in decimal (see wikipedia:hexidecimal)

File Transfer Protocol - used to transfer files over the internet.

Secure Shell - a safer, more secure application protocol than FTP and Telnet, used to encrypt and decrypt.

Network Address Translation - takes a private set of IP addresses and maps them onto one or more globally routable IP addresses.

"Synchronize" (a bit flag in TCP)

"Acknowledge" (a bit flag in TCP)

"Finished" (a bit flag in TCP)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - transfers OUTGOING email.

Post Office Protocol - receives INCOMING email.

Internet Message Access Protocol - another protocol that receives email.

Command that requests that the server return a list of capabilities, including authorization, that it supports.

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - allows binary data to be encoded in ASCII text; allows multiple standard objects to be connected into a single email message.

http://cs.marlboro.edu/ courses/ spring2010/internet/ wiki/ glossary
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