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| URL (Uniform Resource Locator) | The address of a site on the Internet that starts with http://. |
| Internet | The world-wide network of computers. |
| search engine | A program that searches documents on the Internet for specific key words. |
| e-mail | The transfer of information from one computer to another on a network. |
| hardware | This is the part of your computer system that you can see and touch like the monitor, keyboard, cpu, etc... |
| software | Computer programs that tell the computer what to do. |
| network | A group of computers connected together to share information. |
| download | Transfer data from another computer to the computer you are using. |
| upload | Transfer data from your computer to another computer. |
| hyperlink | The text or graphic on Web page that links to other pages. |
| graphic | Pictures, clip art, graphs, charts, and other images |
| browser | A software program used to locate and display web pages (examples are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator). |
| CD-ROM | Compact disk, read-only memory |
| Virus | Computer program that was written to damage a computer system |
| Homepage | The first website you see when your computer goes on the Internet. |
| .com | commercial |
| .org | organization, nonprofit |
| .gov | government |
| .edu | educational |
| .mil | military |
| Favorites/Bookmark | a link to a web site that you visit a lot - you can save the location of that web site |
| Meta tag | HTML tags that have information about the web page (info like who created page, what program was used, keywords) |
| Web site | A collection of web pages |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language - the language used to create web pages |
| Keywords | Words used to narrow down the results of a search |
