| A | B |
|---|
| Distance learning | the electronic transmission of lessons over geographic distances |
| Electronic mail | electronic preparation & sending of messages, images or documents |
| Fax | a facsimile machine or the document generated by it |
| Hacker | a person who illegally tries to access & sometimes damage files |
| Home page | the first page of a Web site that contains general info |
| Hub | a central connecting device in a network (star config) |
| HTML | programming language for content for the WWW |
| Internet | vast network of computers linked to one another |
| Intranet | a company's private Web |
| Local area network | computer network covering a small area |
| Modem | a device, using phone lines, to connect your computer to the Internet |
| Network | computers that are connected |
| Online | connected and ready to receive and/or transmit data |
| Protocol | the rules observed for 2 computers to communicate with each other |
| Snail mail | US postal service mail |
| Telecommunications | communication between computer users, using a computer & modem |
| Theme | a format or design template for Web pages |
| Uniform Resource Locator | Internet address that identifies hypertext documents |
| Virus | a hidden, destructive computer program that can spread to other computers |
| World Wide Web | a subset of the Internet, a system of computer that share information |
