Amazon conversions

A study by Nielsen/NetRatings reported that Amazon.com converts about thirteen percent of its visitors into sales. This rate compares rather well against the majority of ecommerce website, whose conversion rate average is about one percent. Amazon has been setting the bar for successful online sales since it opened up for business as an online bookseller in 1995.
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ActiveX control

An ActiveX control is a program component that can be called and used by other application programs within a computer or among computers in a network. Programmers can develop ActiveX controls in a variety of languages, including C, C++, Visual Basic, and Java. The ActiveX control concept was developed primarily for use on the web.
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Paul A. Samuelson

"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles." - Paul A. Samuelson.
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Gopher

Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Gopher was invented at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before the rise of the web. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by the hypertext protocol, used widely on the web.
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Applets

An applet is a small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page and executed by a web browser. A Java Virtual Machine, built into the browser, interprets the instructions of the Java applet. Applets are not allowed to access certain resources on the local computer, such as files and serial devices, and are prohibited from communicating with most other computers across a network.
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LINQ

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query. LINQ is part of Microsoft's .NET platform that let's web developers integrate database query constructs into their programs using syntax similar to SQL. This concept makes database programming logic easier to deploy within .NET's object oriented framework.
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A router

A router is a hardware device that connects one computer network to another. Routers also direct traffic on the Internet by filtering packets of data and sending them to their correct destination. Packets of information usually move from one router to the next until they reach their destination.
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