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| Back/ Forward | Buttons in the Netscape Tool Button Bar, upper left. |
| Bookmark | Way to Netscape to store in your computer direct links to sites you wish to return to. |
| browsers | are software programs that enable you to view WWW documents. translate HTML encoded files into text, images, sounds, |
| cookie | a message from a web server computer, sent to and stored by your browser on your computer |
| domain | hierarchial scheme for indicating logical and sometime geographical venue of a web page from the network ex: edu, org |
| download | save to diskette |
| frames | a format for web documents that divides the screen into segments, each with a scroll bar as if it were as "window" within the window. |
| host | computer that provides web-documents to clients or users |
| hypertext | the feature built into HTML that allows a text area, image, or other object to become a link that retrieves another computer file on the internet |
| internet | the vast collection of inter- connected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's |
| IP address or IP number | Internet Protocol number or address, a unique number consisting of 4 pars separated by dots |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider, a company that sells Internet connections via modem |
| link | the URL embedded in another document, so that if you click on the highlighted text or button referring to the link, you retrieve the outside URL |
| meta-search engine | search engines that automatically submit your keyword search to several other search tools, and retrieve results from all their databases |
| packet jam | when you retrieve a document via the WWW, the document is sent in "packets" which fit in between other messages on the telecommunications lines, and then are reassembled when they arrive at your end |
| PDF file or .pdf or pdf file | abbreviation for the Portable Document Format, a file format developed by Adobe Systems, that is used to capture almost any kind of document with the formatting in the original |
| server, web server | a computer running that software, assigned an IP address, and connected to the internet so that it can provide document via the WWW, also caleld the HOST computer |
| TCP/ IP | Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (this is the suite of protocols that defines the Internet) |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator, unique address of any web document |
