Jak Dude's definitions

bulletin board

A bulletin board is an electronic message center that usually serves a specific interest group. One reaches a bulletin board through the Internet, and then reads or posts messages to relate to others who frequent the specific board.

Hi Jak, I read your post on the bulletin board!

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

chat room

A chat room is a virtual room where people can communicate in real time while on the Internet. Users type their messages with a keyboard and the entered text will appear on the monitor, along with the text of the other chat room visitors.

I talked to Jak in the chat room yesterday and he sounded mad.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

operating system

An operating system (OS) is the basic structure on which your computer runs. The most common operating systems used on Web servers are FreeBSD (UNIX), Windows®, Linux, and Solaris.
See Also: UNIX, FREEBSD

My operating system is Windows.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

Electronic commerce

Electronic, or "e"-commerce (ecommerce)is the selling of products and services over the Web. It can transform your static web site into an interactive, dynamic, and operational electronic commerce Web business! We help our customers to establish their online businesses and to sell their goods and services online.

Electronic commerce has rapidly increased over the past few years.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

ecommerce

See also Electronic commerce

ecommerce is the selling of products and services over the Web. It can transform your static web site into an interactive, dynamic, and operational electronic commerce Web business! We help our customers to establish their online businesses and to sell their goods and services online.

Our site is about ecommerce.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

Gamefan

Gamefan was a company owned by Express.com that sold banner ads and provided webspace to gaming sites like VoodooExtreme and SomethingAwful (who recently switched to another company and has a law suit running against Express.com).
Here's a quote from one of the affiliates from the Gamefan network to one of their own hosted site :

I apologize for the short notice on this. I just received an e-mail from our hosts, GameFan Network, that they will no longer be providing hosting to any sites. ... This means that we cannot provide reliable hosting for the foreseeable future, even if we do secure new hosting. I strongly recommend you begin transferring your sites off immediately, as GFN says all access will be revoked by Monday
(Thanks PlanetCrap)
So what does this mean ?
This means that next to Gamefan's own portal site already being down, ALL their hosted sites (and next in line the hosted sites from the affiliates) are going down and will probably receive 0 money that Gamefan owns them for selling banner ads.
Those of you that have been following the problems Lowtax from SomethingAwful had with Gamefan/Expres.com probably saw this coming, but all in all it's still a pity that networks like these just don't play it fair and try to not pay their affiliates and come up with all kinds of excuses and then just shut down.
Funny note : on Express.com's own site there's no mentioning of Gamefan shutting down what so ever. Guess they can miss bad publicity...

Gamefan magazine was the best game magazine of the 90's.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005

INTERNIC

Internic, or Network Solutions, was the original domain name licensing authority for the United States. They previously had a monopoly on domain name registration that was granted to them by the US Department of Commerce, until November, 1999, when competition was enforced and they were required to share their database and registry services with anyone who qualified as a registrar. ICANN is the newly appointed organization that oversees domain name registration issues.
See Also: ICANN, REGISTRAR

I am so glad the Internic has changed.

by Jak Dude May 6, 2005