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| online social network | a Web site that encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other registered users |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol | describes rules used to transmit Web pages electronically over the Internet |
| tabbed browsing | provides a way to navigate between the search results and associated Web pages within a single browser window |
| Real-time communication | users participating in the communication must be online at the same time |
| Hypertext Markup Language | special language used to create Web pages |
| Internet | a worldwide collection of networks |
| Boolean operator | compound search criteria that allows you to control how individual words in a keyword phrase are used |
| Browser | makes using the World Wide Web easier by removing the complexity of having to know the rules or commands used to reference the Web pages |
| Web-based e-mail | allows you to send and receive e-mails by logging into a Web site, instead of installing an e-mail program on your computer |
| Downloading | the process of transferring documents, graphics, and other objects from a computer on the network to your computer |
| Adware | randomly displays advertisements and other messages while you use your computer |
| Really Simple Syndication | allows Web page authors to easily distribute or syndicate Web content |
| Uniform Resource Locator | unique address used to distinguish a Web page from all other Web pages |
| History list | alphabetical list of Web pages visited over a period of days or weeks |
| Uploading | process of transferring documents, graphics, and other objects from your computer to another computer on the Internet |
| Home Page | the introductory page for a Web site |
| Spyware | a program that tracks the actions you take on your computer and sends them to a third party |
| electronic mail | sending of messages or files electronically |
| domain name | the Internet address of the computer where the Web page is located |
| hyperlink | points to the location of the computer on which the hypermedia is stored and to the hypermedia itself |
