| A | B |
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| www means | World Wide Web |
| web browser | software program that requests a web page |
| Examples of web browsers | Internet Explorer, Firefox, |
| Web site | a group of related web pages that are linked together |
| Portal website | provide a variety of Internet services from a single location |
| Examples of portal websites | Yahoo.com, MSN.com |
| Examples of news websites | USA Today, LAtimes.com |
| News website | contains news articles relating to current events |
| Information website | contains factual information such as research or statistics |
| Example of informational websites | eHow.com, wikepedia.org |
| Educational web site | provides formal and informal teaching and learning |
| Examples of educational web sites | any of your online textbook sites, dictionary.com |
| Internet | world-wide network of computers |
| Numerous ways to communicate over the Internet | send email, transfer files, view web pages |
| HTML | hypertext markup language |
| Web server | remote computer that stores and processes web pages |
| URL | web address |
| http | rules that have been implemented to allow browsers to interoperate with web server that stores the web pages your are requesting |
