Smiling face : ) (emoticon). Also used to refer to any emoticon.
sneakernet
A means of moving a file from one computer to another by putting it on a floppy disk and carrying it across the room (possibly while wearing sneakers).
select
To highlight an area of text or an image, or several items together. Areas of text can be selected with a mouse by dragging the cursor over them. Graphic elements (including text windows in a page layout program) are selected by clicking the mouse on them. Several elements can be selected together by clicking the mouse on each while holding down the shift key. Selected items can be moved or modified with other commands. On computers that do not have a mouse, the cursor is used for selecting, along with keyboard commands.
subscript
Subscript characters are below the line of regular text and often smaller. Subscripts are used for chemical symbols (H2O) and mathematical formulae.
superscript
Superscript characters appear above the line of regular text and are often smaller. Superscripts are used for footnotes and exponents (r2).
single spacing
In a word processing program, a setting that gives the normal automatic leading between every line of text; the same as hitting one return on a typewriter.
system enabler
A system update file for Macintosh that must be present to tell the System 7 operating system which model of Macintosh it is running.
second generation computer
A computer built with discrete transistors. Second-generation computers were made in the mid-1950s through mid-1960s.
second generation language
Assembly language; the language in between machine language and high-level programming languages.
Cofounder of Apple Computer in 1975, with Steve Wozniak. Apple released the Macintosh computer in 1984, which was a milestone in the personal computer revolution. In 1985 Jobs started NeXT Inc., a company that builds workstations.
