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| Special software program required to navigate the WWW that allows access to information on the Internet. | Browser |
| Process of exploring the Web. | Browsing |
| A central computer used by special interest groups to exchange information on a particular topic. | Bulletin board system |
| The part of an Internet E-mail address after the @ symbol that identifies the computer where the user is working. | Domain |
| The last three letters of an Internet address. (also known as top-level domain) | Domain extension |
| .com=commercial service, .edu=education, .gov =government, .mil=military, .net=network provider, .org=organization. | Domain extension types |
| The system used to identify Internet addresses. | Domain name system (DNS) |
| Transferring data (files) from a remote computer to a location on the user’s local computer. | Download |
| Inserting an object into another file (such as a sound file or a picture file) so that it becomes a permanent part of that file. | Embedding |
| A special software program, often called a GUI or a graphical user interface that allows you to access text, color, video, sound, and multimedia presentations on the Internet. | Graphical browser |
| Number of items found in a response to a search query. | Hits |
| The main page for a Website. | Home page |
| An Internet computer. | Host |
| A portion of a text document that contains programming code to link a word, graphic, or phrase to another section in a document, or to a different document. | Hypertext |
| Allows user to jump from word, graphic, or phrase to a different document. | Hypertext link |
| Refers to the embedded directions within regular text to create web pages. | Hypertext markup language (HTML) |
| The communications instructions used to connect the WWW across the Internet. | Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) |
| The network of networks. | Internet |
| Internet Service Provider. | ISP |
| A function that allows one spreadsheet to contain external references to one or more supporting spreadsheets or graphs so that as a user updates, the external and remote spreadsheets or graphs will be updated. | Linking |
| Allow users to move from one part of a site to another part or to another site. | Links |
| Uniform Resource Locator. The web address. | URL |
| Hypermedia system that lets you browse through related documents on the Internet through the use of hypertext links. | World Wide Web (WWW) |
