Gateway - The technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up that translates between two dissimilar protocols, for example Prodigy has a gateway that translates between its internal, proprietary e-mail format and Internet e-mail format. Another, sloppier meaning of gateway is to describe any mechanism for providing access to another system, e.g.
CyPace Hosting might be called a gateway to the Internet. Gateway can also be defined as the as a devices' next hop address. For example, when you configure your workstation to communicate, you need to specify an IP address, a subnet mask, and a default gateway.
Gigabyte - A unit of measure for network bandwidth, storage and memory. A gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes. All
CyPace Hosting offer many gigabytes of disk space and of bandwidth.
Gopher - A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while.