Webwise - a beginners guide to the internet
XYZ
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A type of code used to create websites.
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A company which provides a search engine, free webmail, advertising, and news portal and other services. Yahoo! used to run a website hosting service called Geocities, which used to be the 3rd most visited website on the internet but which was deleted in 2009.
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A webmail service run by Yahoo!.
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A very popular video hosting website where people can upload, watch, share, comment on and rate videos.
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To compress a file to make it smaller and easier to transfer: also the file type (ZIP) that the file will end up becoming. You can open a ZIP package with a program like Winzip.
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A personal computer connected to the internet which has been unwittingly hijacked by a hacker and used to do what the hacker wants without the owner even noticing - often to run DoS attacks or to send spam emails.