Re: common terms in cyberspace I will just add that the most common terms, virus, code, login, newbie, server, network, etc. have already been defined or at least as a good primary reference one might look at the New Hacker's Dictionary, Eric Raymond, I believe he updated it in 1998. Many web terms came from unix terms, it's not nec. to know unix but the defintions have been there and broadly distributed among hacker/computing communities for some years now. cyber of course, from Norbert Weiner's cybernetics (1948), also quite a vintage derivation. I did think that cyber was greatly influenced by sci-fi and other terms greatly influenced by hackers (I mean good hackers here) and if we mean something different then we need, as the previous post said, different language or at least qualifying what we mean, where. Denise ===== "I want to focus on my salad" (M. Stewart. 2002) Denise Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of Education, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com