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| Web Browser | A tool or program that allows you to surf the web. |
| Hypertext | Text on a web page that links the user to another web page. It is usually a different color. |
| URL | An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It's the address of each web site. It usually begins with http:// |
| Internet | Originally called ARPANET after the Advanced Research Project Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. This electronic network connects the hosts together so that you may go from one web page to another efficiently. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is not really language, but a way to format text by placing marks around the text. HTML allows you to make a word bold or underlined. HTML is the foundation for most web pages. |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A protocol that tells computers how to communicate with each other. You will notice most web page locations begin with http:// |
| Search Engine | A vehicle for searching out information on the internet. Search engines are huge databases of web page files that have been assembled automatically by machine. There are two types of search engines: INDIVIDUAL; compile their own searchable databases. META; they search the databases of multiple sets of individual engines simultaneously. |
| LAN | Local Area Network. A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area (usually a building). It is made up of servers, workstations, a network operating system and a communications link. |
| WAN | Wide Area Network. A communications network that covers a wide geographical area, such as a state, a country or even the world. |
| Modem | Short for Modulator-demodulator devices. Modems allow computers to transmit information to one another via a telephone line. Converting an analog signal to a digital signal using binary code. (ON = 1, OFF = 0). |
| Meta Engine | Searches the databases of multiple individual search engines simultaneously for information. |
| Four Properties of a Computer | INPUT: keyboard, mouse, voice, scanner, touch. OUTPUT: printer, moniter, voice, video. STORE: storage, hard drive, CD, Disc, server. PROCESS. |
| Four Main Tags needed to make a web page | HTML, Head, Title and Body. |
| Tag | HTML (hypertext markup language) commands. Codes which are typed in a document to control the way the document is displayed by a browser. You must have the tag in the middle of the less (<) and the greater (>) than signs. To end the tags use the slash (/) sign after the second less (<) sign. |
