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- Legacy Applications
- A program in which an organization has already invested considerable time and money. Typically,
legacy applications are database management systems (DBMSs) running on the
company's mainframe. New software would only be valuable if it can work with a company's legacy applications, or at least be able
to import data from them.
- Link
- A button, phrase, or URL which can be clicked on to open a new
website or page.
- Link Farm
- A series of websites with similar content linking to each other in order to increase
their page rank.
- Linux
- Linux is an operating system developed by Norwegian programmer Linus Torvald. Linux is free and the
source code is all 'open', meaning that anybody can work on the Linux operating system and
post new code to improve
it. This concept is known as 'Open Source'. IBM has adopted Linux as a standard
operating system. Linus is a new system, is hard to install and it is still being
tested, but it very useful and it is free.
- Listserv
- A list of e-mail addresses of individuals who have all asked to participate
in the list to discuss topics of common interest. The messages that each person
posts to the listserv are automatically e-mailed to every member of the list.
- LOL
- Email shorthand for "Laughs Out
Loud" or "Laughing
Out Loud"
to indicate that the person thought that the comment they are
responding to was funny. Some people think it means "Lots of
Laughs", but that is not the generally accepted meaning and
doesn't make sense in most contexts.
- Lurker
- An individual who reads message boards or listservs but rarely, if
ever, posts to them. They just absorb the information shared
there rather than participating in the discussion.
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