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Navigation
The process of finding your way around a web-site. The provision of a adequate navigation tools is one of the biggest challenges facing website developers, who must consider not just how to guide visitors from the Home Page of their site but also how to indicate their exact location within it.

Navigator
A browser produced by Netscape. Once the undisputed market leader, Navigator's innovation and technical excellence made it the browser of choice for millions of neophyte Internet users.

NC / Network Computer
A "trimmed down" version of a PC that has certain restrictions and is used only on a network or Internet. It generally does not have a local disk drive, floppy or hard disk. It generally boots from the server or NIC.

NCSA
The National Center For Supercomputing Applications. Based at University of Illinois, the NCSA is a research organization specializing in high-performance computer applications in many fields.

Nerd
A generally pejorative term for someone of above-average intelligence but who has poorly developed social skills and is sartorially challenged.

Nethead
An engineer or other individual with a strong belief in the power of intelligent, IP-based digital networks over the final networks run by telephone companies.

Netiquette
The conventions of politeness on USENET. Many relate to the niceties of posting messages in Newsgroups; for examples, advertising beef products in alt.food.vegan is a clear breach of netiquette.

Netscape
A company that played a major role in creating worldwide enthusiasm for the Internet.

Netware
A Network Operating System developed by NOVELL.

Network
A collection of people or things, linked together to share information or resources.

Network Entity
A Network Entity is a set of Functional Entities which is mapped onto a single piece of equipment in all possible system implementations. A Network Entity is the atomic unit of implementation. There is a one-to-one relationship between Network Entities and Physical Entities.

Network Externalities
An economic term describing the effect that new members of a network have on the existing ones.

Network Solutions
A US-based organization which registers new top-level domains.

New Media
Forms of mass communications Powered by the Internet and related technologies.

Newbie
A newcomer to the Inter, or , more specifically, to USENET and its Newsgroups. Newbies are widely reviled for their lack of netiquette and are discouraged from participating in some newsgroups.

Newsgroup
A discussion group on the USENET. Unlike chat rooms, newsgroups are not live; instead, questions and comments are posted to one of many Usenet servers and later redistributed around the rest of the network.

NFS / Network File System
Developed by Sun Microsystems to allow a computer to access files over a network as if they were on local disks; now public domain, a de facto Internet standard.

NNTP / Network News Transfer Protocol
For a message to be posted to a newsgroup, it must conform to this protocol that interacts between news servers and newsreaders. The NNTP is basically the software foundation of a newsgroup server.

Node
A host computer on a network. A node may be as simple as a standalone PC connected to the Internet across a dial-up connection or as complex as a server delivering information to hundreds of machines.

NOS / Network Operating System
A software that (a)controls a network and its message traffic and queues. (b)controls access by multiple users to network resource such as files, and (c)provides for certain administrative functions, including security. This network operating system is most frequently used with LAN and WAN, but could also have application to larger network systems.

Notes
The software that popularized Groupware. 

Novell
A software company, best known for its Netware Network Operating System.

NS / Name Server
Name Server specifies a host that will act as a domain name server for the specified domain. A computer on the Internet that tracks the relationship between IP addresses and domain names.

NT
Microsoft operating system first seen in 1993. It is a 32 bit operating system, well suited to a network environment where users share services. (see Windows NT)

NT / Windows 2000 Hosting
NT or Windows 2000 Hosting defines the services of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites on NT or Windows 2000 web server at high speed Internet connection.

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