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| Original name for the Internet | ARPANet |
| Year the Internet began | 1969 |
| Organization that started the Internet | the US military |
| Necessary to connect online | modem, phone line, computer, ISP |
| Coding language for web pages | HTML |
| What HTML stands for | HyperText Markup Language |
| Interprets HTML coding | browser |
| Organization that sets standards for the WWW | W3 (World Wide Web Consortium) |
| most popular browser | Internet Explorer |
| most popular monitor resolution | 800x600 |
| rate a modem interprets data | baud rate |
| computer information format | digital |
| phone line information format | analog |
| home pages provide this navition feature | table of contents |
| different color, underlined, changes color | attributes of a hyperlink |
| cursor changes to this when moved over a hyperlink | a little hand |
| web page address | URL (Uniform Resource Locator) |
| letters and symbols that precede a web page address | http:// |
| domain name | initial portion of a URL that contains the extension but not the full path |
| indicates the directory and subdirectores where a web page is stored | path |
| com, gov, mil, net, edu, org | extensions |
| bits per second | bps |
| file transfer protocol | ftp |
| internet relay chat | irc |
| multi-user dungeon | mud |
| junk e-mail | spam |
| e-mail based mailing list | listserv |
| sometimes needed to view special file formats | plug-in |
| used to find specific information on the Internet | search engine |
| nom, firm, arts, rec, store, info, web | new top-level extensions |
