Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) - A set of Java classes used to implement system independent graphical user interfaces.

applet - a mini-program, designed to be run via a Java interpreter as part of a web page. applets are not allowed to access the file system of the machine they are running on.

Bulletin Board System (BBS) - A computer system, usually accessed by modem, that stores and forwards messages and files for its users.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) - A method used to write programs that process the information obtained through HTML forms on the WWW.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - The language used to write documents for the WWW. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - A popular Internet chat system.

Java - An object oriented, operating system independent programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems. Java is similar to C++, but also contains the ability to write applets.

Java Developer's Kit - the system specific tools used to build and run Java programs.

multithreading - the ability of a program and operating system to support multiple threads of execution.

thread - a separate path of execution in a program. Each thread shares the memory with the main program, but can have its own variables.

UNIX - a popular multi-user operating system.

World Wide Web (WWW) - A global network of hypertext pages.