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The online world has its own language and dictionary of terms. While a lot of this dialog has become well-known and commonplace among the general public, others have not caught on as fast - and even more are being created every day!
In an effort to explain some of the more common terms, we have created this glossary. This is not meant to be an all-encompassing encyclopedia, but rather a brief glimpse at some of the most frequently used words and acronyms. If you would like to suggest an Internet term that is not part of this list, please send an eMail to info@gravityfree.com.
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Gateway - See Payment Gateway.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) - Developed by CompuServe. A common graphics format for Web images. GIF and .JPG (JPEG) are the most common Web graphics formats in use today. Animated GIFs are a group of images stored in one GIF file with programmed delays and transitions that created the illusion of animation.

Gigabyte - 1000 megabytes of data. See also megabyte.

Google - The most recognized search engine. Powers AOL and several other major search engines.

Google Dance - An unofficial term coined to refer to the period when Google is performing the update to its index.

Googlebot - The robot which index pages into Google.

Gopher - A predecessor to the World Wide Web, was a means of navigating a sequence of menus on different servers. Gopher created links from one gopher site to another. With the arrival of the Web and its hypertext navigation ability, Gopher's usefulness has largely disappeared.

GUI (Graphics User Interface) - Pronounced "gooey", a navigational command or menu interface designed to be self-explanatory and easy to use by pointing and clicking on text selections and icons. The Windows GUI interface, although originally pioneered in the 1970s by Xerox, is now the de-facto standard for American business.

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