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Mailing list
An e-mail system that includes multiple recipients as part of its address. See e-mail.

Mailto
An HTML tag used to send E-mail to a specified address. Mailtos are frequently used with forms to transfer the data input from forms an E-mail account.

Megabit
This is roughly one million bits. This is exactly 1,048,576 bits.

Megabits per second - aka Mbps
This is a measure of throughput roughly in millions of bits per second. More exactly 1,048,576 bits per second.

Megabyte
Roughly one million bytes. This is exactly 1,048,576 bytes.

Memory
Chips in a computer that remember data. Also commonly referred to as RAM & DRAM. Serves as a temporary memory cash for you operating system. Programs, images, documents, etc. are removed from your hard drive (storage) and put into the temp memory so the operating system can run it, allowing you to view or interact with.

Meta Information
The header information located in the HTML programming code that makes up a Web page. This is what Web robots explore when indexing information to locate on their search engine software. This is typically what we call "key words" that are used to describe the Web site and some of its content. Every Web site on the Web typically has 25 key word to describe content, location, themes, and titles names.

Meta Search Engine
Search engines that automatically submit your keyword search to several other search tools, and retrieve results from all their databases. Convenient time-savers for relatively simple keyword searches (one or two keywords or phrases in " "). See Meta-Search Engines page for complete descriptions and examples.

MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface - A music definition language and communications protocol enabling electronic instruments to communicate musical information.

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
A means of identifying content in e-mail files and on Web pages. Used by Web browser programs to identify Web page content for proper display.

Mosaic
A browser program developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that provides the internet user with a point-and-click interface to WWW, Gopher, FTP, and other Internet services.

MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group
Compression algorithm for video and audio files, often used on the Web.

MP3
(MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) - This is a compression standard for audio. It enables compression of CD-audio by about 10x, depending on the bit and sampling rate. It does not stand for MPEG-3, but rather it is the audio part of the MPEG-1 audio / video compression standard.

Multimedia
The combined use of several media, such as movies, television, music, lighting, CD-ROMs, and the Internet, as for education, entertainment, publicity, or advertising.

MySQL
Open Source Database, designed for speed, power and heavy load use. MySQL AB is the company owned by the MySQL founders.


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Newsgroup
A Usenet discussion group operated through the Internet that is related to one topic. Internet users can subscribe to many different newsgroups.

NetScape Navigator
A graphical World Wide Web browser for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Amiga systems.

Network
A set of computers that all use the same protocol in order to exchange information among themselves.


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