| A | B |
|---|
| world wide web | collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web |
| servers | where electronic documents are located |
| url | uniform resource locator |
| web browser | displays a web page on your screen |
| html | language a web page is written in |
| hyperlinks | link to other web pages |
| websites | one or more web pages relating to a common theme |
| home page | first page of a web site that acts like an index |
| multitasking | doing several things at once |
| dial up | the slowest of the internet connections |
| dsl | shares the same cable as your telephone |
| satellite internet | good for rural areas; can be degraded by rain |
| wireless internet | simplest of the internet connections |
| cable modems | usually very reliable with good pricing |
| power line internet | internet of the future |
| netiquette | network etiquette |
| golden rule | do unto others as you would have others do until you |
| breaking the law | bad netiquette |
| search engines | help people find information stored on sites |
| gopher and Archie | early search engines |
| spiders | search heavily used servers and pages |
| google.com | began as an academic search engine; very popular |
| meta tag | specifies key words and concepts; can include typos |
| boolean operators | AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks |
