Some people are concerned that web servers have the power to write to their local hard disk without their knowing about it. The information written is called a "cookie". This page attempts to address that topic.

To simplify text communications a number of acronyms have been developed. This page expands a collection of some you may encounter.

Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages. Over time they have turned into an art form as well.

HIBERFIL.SYS AND PAGEFILE.SYS are system-generated files. They are used by Windows for hibernation and virtual memory control.

HTML colors can be specified in a number of different ways. The most common is to use hexidecimal notation but the HTML specification allows the use of specific names.

You try to access a web page but all you get is a mysterious code number. What do they mean? This page attempts to address that topic.

The last characters on a domain name are usually either a country code (e.g., .ac, .br, etc.) or a top level domain (e.g., .com, .org, etc.). This page describes the various values available.