Category: Web & IT
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GameStop
GameStop (EB Games, formerly Babbage’s) is a company specializing in the distribution of video games and electronic equipment. The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas. As of January 2022, the company had 4,537 outlets worldwide. GameStop Name GameStop Creation date 1984 Legal status Limited company Stock New York Stock Exchange (GME) Slogan Power to the…
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C (language)
The C programming language is imperative, general-purpose and low-level. Invented in the early 1970s to rewrite Unix, C has become one of the most widely used languages to this day. Many more modern languages such as C++, C#, Java and PHP or JavaScript have taken a syntax similar to C and partly take its logic.…
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a computer language that describes the presentation of HTML and XML documents. The standards defining CSS are published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Introduced in the mid-1990s, CSS became commonly used in web design and well-supported by web browsers in the 2000s. CSSCascading Style Sheets Characteristics Extension .css…
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot prototype developed in 2022 by OpenAI that specializes in dialogue. The chatbot is a great language model, fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. It is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, an improved version of GPT-3. ChatGPT General information Program type Prototype Creator OpenAI Initial launch November 30,…
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Wiki
A wiki (Hawaiian for “fast”) is a website whose content can not only be read by visitors, but also edited and changed directly in the web browser (Web 2.0 application). The goal is often to gather experience and knowledge jointly (collective intelligence) and to document it in a form understandable for the target group. For…
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Internet
Internet or the internetwork is a decentralized set of interconnected communications networks, using the TCP/IP family of protocols, which guarantees that the heterogeneous physical networks that compose it constitute a single logical network of global reach. Its origins date back to 1969, when the first computer connection, known as ARPANET, was established between three universities…
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Netflix
Netflix is an American multinational company created in Scotts Valley in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph belonging to the creative industries sector. It specializes in the distribution and exploitation of cinematographic and television works through a platform dedicated to video-on-demand service. It is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Creation August 29, 1997 Key…
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JavaScript
JavaScript (often abbreviated as JS) is a structured, high-level scripting structured programming language with weak dynamic typing and multiparadigm (prototypes, object-oriented, imperative, and functional). Along with HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the top three technologies in the World Wide Web. JavaScript enables interactive web pages and is therefore an essential part of web…
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Gmail
Gmail is a free, non-free, ad-supported email service provided by Google. It can be accessed via the web or through applications that use POP3, IMAP, or Google APIs. Gmail website Url https://www.gmail.com/ Site Type Electronic mail Registration Mandatory Profit Yes Owner Google LLC Created by Google LLC Toss April 1, 2004 Current status Active It…
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IP address blocking
IP address blocking is a configuration of a network service that blocks requests from hosts with certain IP addresses. IP address blocking is commonly used to protect against brute force attacks and to prevent access through a disruptive address. It can be used to restrict access to or from a particular geographic area, for example,…