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G: Email and newsgroup abbreviation for a grin.

Generic product: A product which is the same for all competitors. An example would be a hamburger (small bun, ketchup, mustard, two pickles and a tiny patty - every fast food joint offers one).

Gif: A type of graphic understood by all graphic browsers. They were introduced by CompuServe back when graphic browsers were young. Now, they are the most flexible graphic format, allowing transparent backgrounds and animation.

Gopher: A menu-driven interface for the Internet. This system is now obsolete; it was almost entirely replaced by the World Wide Web.

.gov: A suffix indicating a government domain.

GUI: Graphical User Interface. A program that uses icons rather than commands. Windows uses GUI; Unix and DOS use command-line interfaces.