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UNIX - A computer operating system. UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. UNIX is the basis for all modern day non-Microsoft operating systems (Linux, BSD, OS X, AIX).

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - The standard way to give the address of any resource on the Internet that is part of the World Wide Web (WWW). A URL looks like this: http://www.cypacehosing.com or ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com, etc.

USENET - A world-wide system of discussion groups, with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines. Not all USENET machines are on the Internet, maybe half. USENET is completely decentralized, with over 10,000 discussion areas, called newsgroups.

UUENCODE (Unix to Unix Encoding) -- A method for converting files from Binary to ASCII (text) so that they can be sent across the Internet via e-mail.

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