Jumplist was a term used in the early years of the world wide web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 to describe a collection of links

Hyperlink

In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...

, which were individually referred to as jumps. The Jumplist database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

-driven web service was developed by i/us Corp. and launched in 1998 at jumplist.com . It provided a highly-customizable method for users to create categorized collections of links, which they could access privately or display on their sites.

The Windows 7 taskbar introduced a new feature called Jump Lists (increasingly referred to as "jumplists") which can be invoked by right clicking on a taskbar icon . For further information, consult the features new to Windows 7

Features new to Windows 7

Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.-Shell and user...

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