CERN (l’Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)

Translates from French as The European

Council for Nuclear Research, and is generally known as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN in 1989 as a collaborative tool for high-energy physicists. See Appendix A for contact information. See also Berners-Lee, Tim and WWW.

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• area code
• area code
• ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers)
• arithmetic coding
• arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
• armored cable
• .arpa (address routing and parameter area)
• ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
• ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency NETwork)
• ARPA protocol suite
• ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest)
• ARS (Automatic Route Selection)
• artifact
• AS (Autonomous System)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• Ashbacker Radio Corporation vs. the FCC
• Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC)
• ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit)
• ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying)
• ASP (Application Service Provider)
• aspect ratio
• assured forwarding (AF)
• asymmetric