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ARC iT Solutions - Jargon Buster - U

Our A-Z will help you understand the IT terms that are now being used every day in the modern day world

The Jargon Buster explains technical and computing terms with which you might not be familiar.

Unmetered Access - internet accounts which offer access free of phone charges after you pay a monthly fixed amount.

Upload - copying from your computer onto a server. Typically someone who has written a web page 'uploads' it from their computer onto a server, from where it is then accessed by other users.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - A standard way to specify the location of a file on the Internet. The URL combines the network protocol to use (eg.e.g. HTTP), the name of the host (eg www.arcitsolutions.co.uk) and the name of the file (online) into a single specification, eg. "http://www.arcitsolutions.co.uk" is the URL for Arcitsolutions.co.uk.

USB (Universal Serial Bus) - This is a plug on your computer used as an easy way of connecting different pieces of hardware to your PC.

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