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Icon	Icon	This small picture on the computer screen representing an object or function that the user may manipulate or otherwise use.
IETF	IETF	This is an abbreviation for Internet Engineering Task Force
IMA	IMA	This is an abbreviation for Interactive Multimedia Association
Image Compression	Image Compression	This is a method used to reduce the amount of information required to represent an image, so that it takes up less computer memory and can be transmitted more rapidly and economically via telecommunications systems.
Image map	Schaltfläche	On the World Wide Web it is a large image with multiple hot spots on which users click to navigate around the site.
Immediate access memory	RAM	In computing this is the memory provided in the central processing unit to store the programs and data in current use.
Impact printer	Nadeldrucker	It is a computer printer that creates characters by striking an inked ribbon against the paper beneath.
Import file	Importierte(wichtige) Datei	This is a file that can be read by a program even though it was produced as an export file by a different program or make of computer.
Index	Index	This is a list of key words created at the end of a document. The index contains the word and the page refernces where that word can be found.
Infection	Infektion	It is the state of having a virus in a computer system.
Information superhighway	Datenautobahn	This is a popular collective name for the Internet and other large scale computer networks.
Information technology (IT)	Informations Technologie	This is a collective term for the various technologies involved in processing and transmitting information. They include telecommunications and microelectronics.
Ink-jet printer	Tintenstrahldrucker	It is a printer that creates characters and graphics by spraying very fine jets of quick-drying ink onto paper. They produce very high quality printing and are virtually silent.
Instruction set	Befehle	It is the complete set of machine-code instructions that a computer's central processing unit can obey.
Interactive	Interaktiv	This describes a computer system that will respond directly to data or commands entered by the user.
Interactive computing	Interaktive Berechnung	It is a system for processing data in which the operator is in direct communication with the computer, receiving immediate responses to input data.
Internal modem	Internes Modem	This is a modem that fits into a slot inside a personal computer.
Internet	Internet	This is a global computer network connecting governments, companies, universities, and many other networks and users.
Internet explorer	Internet Explorer	This is a web browser created by Microsoft 1995 to compete with Netscape
Internet mail	Internet Brief	This is e-mail sent across the Internet.
I/O (input/output)	Eingabe/Ausgabe	See input and output devices. The term is also used to describe transfer to and from disc - that is disc I/O
IP address (Internet protocol address)	Adresse eines Pc´s im Internet	This is a numbered address assigned to an Internet host.
ISDN	ISDN	It is an abbreviation for Integrated Services Digital Network which is a telecommunications system used for sending signals in digital format along optical fibres and coaxial cables.
ISOC	ISOC	It is an abbreviation for Internet Society.
ISP	ISP	It is an abbreviation for Internet Service Provider.

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