Convergence: word list

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‘web site name’
1980s not eighties
A$
ad (abbr. for advertisment)
audio-visual
broad bandwidth
CD-i (acceptable abbr. for Interactive CD)
CD-ROM (acceptable abbr. for Compact Disk Read Only Memory)
Cyberspace
Dates - e.g. 12 September 1995
disk
e-mail
high-tech
interactivity
Internet
intertextuality
JANET (abbr. for Joint Academic NETwork)
K (abbr. for kilobytes)
Magazine and book titles
MediaMOO
MOO (acceptable abbr. for MUD object oriented)
MUD (acceptable abbr. for multi-user dungeon)
Net (e.g. the Net, short for the Internet)
net (e.g. the entire net, short for the network if referring to networks outside or including the Internet)
Numbers - one to ten in words unless describing periods or quantities
on-line
PC (acceptable abbr. for Personal Computer)
postmodernism
program (for computer programs only)
programme (e.g. TV programme)
satphone
TV (abbr for television)
TV-i (acceptable abbr. for Interactive TV)
US$
videoconferencing
virtual reality (introduce VR)
VR
web site
WWW (abbr. for World Wide Web)