Monday, April 29, 2002		Bits & Bytes

Moved to Atlanta: A reference to Web pages that disappear and leave only "404 File Not Found" errors in their place. The reference comes from the telephone area code of Atlanta, Georgia, which is 404. Web pages that produce 404 errors are said to have "moved to Atlanta."

Archival backup: A type of backup in which all files are copied to a backup storage device. Archival backups are also called full backup. Contrast with incremental backups in which only modified files are copied.

Query string: The portion of a dynamic URL that contains the search parameters when a dynamic Website is searched. Query strings do not exist until a user plugs the variables into a database search, at which point the search engine will create the dynamic URL with the query string based on the results.