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Print Article  Glossary of Internet Terms  Last Updated: Tue, 25
Feb 2014 > Related Articles  8 rated this   Learn the meaning of
common Internet terminology.   The following is a list of terms
you may see while surfing the Web and particularly in using
Cox.net services. If you have any suggestions for adding terms,
please leave a comment at the bottom of the page.        ASCII -
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a
computer code used to represent all Latin letters, numbers,
punctuation and symbols. Each of the 128 standard codes can be
represented by a 7-digit binary number. ASCII is also used to
describe files displayed in plain text form.    Bandwidth -
Measurement of  amount of information that can be transmitted
over an Internet connection. The more bandwidth you have the
more information that can b