what is second life ?

Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003, and is accessible on the Internet. A free client program called the Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars.

the virtual world created by Linden Labs in 2003, now host to millions of virtual residents

what is unicode ?

An international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set, but unlike them it has the special property of being backwards-compatible with ASCII.

what is rss ?

Really Simple Syndication, a standardized system for the distribution of content, esp. news, from an online publisher to Internet users.

RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

what is proxy address ?

(Proxies) A proxy device (running either on dedicated hardware or as software on a general-purpose machine) may act as a firewall by responding to input packets (connection requests, for example) in the manner of an application, whilst blocking other packets.

A machine that acts on behalf of someone else. It may forward e.g. HTTP requests or TCP/IP connections, usually to or from the internet. For instance, companies – or sometimes entire countries – often use “Web Proxy Servers” to filter outgoing HTTP requests from their internal network.

what is a website address ?

In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it

Same as domain name or URL.

A hostname is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web, e-mail or Usenet

A unique name used to identify a computer on a network.

A host name is the first part (before the first dot) of a hosts’ domain name.

A fully qualified domain name identifying one specific host computer within the Internet.

what is virtual world ?

A virtual world is a genre of online community that often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects .

Virtual World is the sixth young adult novel by the English writer Chris Westwood. It was published in the UK (1996) and in the US (1997) by Viking Penguin. Long-listed for the Carnegie Award in 1997.

(Virtual worlds) are online places like Second Life, where you can create a representation of yourself (an avatar) and socialise with other residents. Basic activity is free, but you can buy currency (using real money) in order to purchase land and trade with other residents.

what is copd ?

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, involving constriction of the airways and difficulty or discomfort in breathing

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also known as chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD), chronic airflow limitation (CAL) and chronic obstructive respiratory disease (CORD), refers to chronic bronchitis and emphysema

COPD is a general term for several lung diseases that includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma. COPD adds to the work of the heart, since the amount of oxygen that goes to the blood may be reduced.

what is asthma ?

A respiratory condition marked by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing. It usually results from an allergic reaction or other forms of hypersensitivity

asthma what is it ?

respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin

(asthmatic) a person suffering from asthma; “she is a chronic asthmatic”; “the painful gasps of a dying asthmatic”

what is an email address ?

An email address identifies an email mailbox to which email messages may be delivered.

(E-MAIL ADDRESSES) Members agree not to post their e-mail address on the site, except in the “e-mail” field of the signup form, or when asked by Xanun at any other time. There should be no need to give anyone your e-mail address.

what is an email address for ?

A user’s electronic mailbox name or address, needed for linking the sender of e-mail and the recipient.

where a person receives his or her email on the Internet (It requires a contract with a SERVICE PROVIDER).