OrphicComp

{
"data": [
	  {
         "word": "UNIX",
		 "meaning": "This is an operating system developed by AT&T. It's big push it that it allows one server to service many different end users at one time."
      },
	  {
         "word": "Virus",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Very Important Resource Under Siege"
      },
	  {
         "word": "Terminal",
		 "meaning": "This is what you look at when you're on the Internet. It's your computer screen."
      },
	  {
         "word": "URL",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Universal Resource Locator. It's a fancy way of saying Internet Address."
      },
	  {
         "word": "Shell",
		 "meaning": "This is a program that sets parameters and acts as a series of boundaries in which an application can run."
      },
{
         "word": "Server",
		 "meaning": "This is a mainframe computer that serves the other computers attached to it."
      },
{
         "word": "Protocol",
		 "meaning": "This is a series of set rules that allow items to transfer."
      },
{
         "word": "Port",
		 "meaning": "This is the connecting component or hardware that allows two computers to attach to one another."
      },
{
         "word": "Multiplexer",
		 "meaning": "This is a piece of hardware that allows one item to take the place of several. An example would be using a multiplexer to allow 10 computers to attach where only one could before."
      },
{
         "word": "Modem",
		 "meaning": "This is a word created out of the beginning letters of two other words: MOdulation and DEModulation."
      },
{
         "word": "Mainframe",
		 "meaning": "Mostly a mainframe is only a mainframe when compared to a desktop computer. It's bigger and much more powerful. Sometimes it's called a server or CPU."
      },
{
         "word": "Kilobyte",
		 "meaning": "This is about a thousand bytes of space. In reality, it's two to the 10th power or 1,024 bytes."
      },
{
         "word": "ISO",
		 "meaning": "Stands for the International Standards Organization. Someone has to say what is the standard for transferring data."
      },
{
         "word": "IBM",
		 "meaning": "Stands for International Business Machines."
      },
{
         "word": "Gigabyte",
		 "meaning": "It's about a billion bytes. Actually it's 2 to the 30th power or 1,073,741,824."
      },
{
         "word": "Gateway",
		 "meaning": "As in Common Gateway Interface (CGI). It is a piece of software that allows two items to communicate with each other."
      },
{
         "word": "Fiber-Optic",
		 "meaning": "This is a new style of cable being used for very high speed data transmission. It works by pushing (modulating) a light wave across cable. The data is carried along with the light."
      },
{
         "word": "Encryption",
		 "meaning": "This is any one of many methods to transfer a file into a hard-to-crack code. It is often done by scrambling or by letter-to-letter replacement."
      },
{
         "word": "DOS",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Disc Operating System. It is a generic term for the many programs that accept commands to trip applications to run. The most popular is MS-DOS."
      },
{
         "word": "DDS",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Direct Digital Signal."
      },
{
         "word": "Database",
		 "meaning": "Anything that accepts data is a database. A pile of newspapers is a database. A computer database has the ability to manipulate that data."
      },
{
         "word": "Cyberspace",
		 "meaning": "This is a term that gives us a way to sort of see what we are surfing while on the Net. It's a generic term for the entire Internet, not just the World Wide Web."
      },
{
         "word": "Compiler",
		 "meaning": "This is an application that converts a programming language into a machine language program."
      },
{
         "word": "CPU",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Central Processing Unit. This is the brain of your computer. It is made up of two parts: The Arithmetic Logic Unit."
      },
{
         "word": "Cache",
		 "meaning": "This is a memory section that holds data while the CPU (central processing unit), is working on it."
      },
{
         "word": "Backbone",
		 "meaning": "Well, all of these computers have to come together somewhere. There are many backbones on the Internet."
      },
{
         "word": "Asynchronous",
		 "meaning": "Transferring data with the help of start and stop bits that indicate the beginning and end of each character being sent."
      },
{
         "word": "BIOS",
		 "meaning": "Stands for Basic Input/Output System. This is the little set of programs that lets all the different parts of the computer talk to each other."
      },
{
         "word": "ANSI",
		 "meaning": "It stands for American National Standards Institute. This is the place that sets standards for data communications, like the Internet."
      },
{
         "word": "WAV",
		 "meaning": "Stands for WAVeform sound format. Microsoft's format for encoding sound files."
      },
{
         "word": "Workgroup",
		 "meaning": "Persons sharing files and data between themselves."
      },
{
         "word": "Terabyte",
		 "meaning": "It's about a trillion bytes. Actually it's 2 to the 40th power or 1,009,511,627,776 bytes."
      }
   ]
}