| A | B |
| Acceptable Use Policy | Binding Document signed by all users explaining thr rules of internet use at an institution; |
| Address | ID of a physical or virtual entity in a network; |
| Analog | Representation of coding of information ina continuous signal that varies in proportion to what is being represented compared to digital, where information is coded into discrete numerical values; |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for information interchange; |
| Asynchronous | A lack of synchronization; |
| Bit | An acronym for Binary digit which is the basic unit of information and carries one of two values, 0 or 1; |
| Bandwidth | A term describing how much data you can send through a connection to the net; |
| bps | Bits per second |
| Broadband | Description of high bandwidth lines; |
| Browser | Program used to download or upload display documents from the world wide web; |