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Web Browser Basics

This is a quiz covering the basic information about WWW and the ways we access through it.

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web browsersoftware that you run on your computer to make it work as a web client
web servercomputers that are connected to the internet and contain files their owners have made available publicly through their own Internet connections
links or hyperlinksuse HTML anchor tags to enable you to link multiple HTML documents to each other
HTMLHypertext Markup Language
web sitecollection of linked web pages that has a common theme or focus
home pagethe main page that all of the pages on a particular web site are organized around and link back to
IPInternet Protocol address
domain nameunique name associated with a specific IP address by a program that runs on an Internet host computer
DNSDomain Name Server
Domain Name Server softwareprogram which coordinates the IP addresses and domains for all computers attached to it
URLUniform Resource Locators
transfer protocolset of rules that the computers use to move files from one computer to another on the Internet
HTTPHypertext transfer protocol
FTPFile transfer protocol
Title barshows the name of the open Web page and the web browser's program name
Scroll barslocated on the right side of the program window and moves the page up and down through the document window
Status barincludes information about the browser's operations and is found at the bottom of the browser window
Menu barprovides a convenient way for you to execute typical File, Edit, View, and Help commands
Home Buttonclicking on this will display the home (or start) page for your browser
index.htmlthe default name for a Web site's home page


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