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| WIPO | "World Intellectual Property Organization", specialized agency of the United Nations responsible of the protection of intellectual property, dealing with legal and administrative aspects such patents, copyrights and trademarks. |
| Internet | The internet is a network of networks where users can give, receive, and share information. |
| Intranet | A private network that is contained within an organization or business. |
| Clients | Clients are those who use the internet and receive information. Clients request and receive information from servers. |
| Blog | A blog is a site where users share personal information. This is often used to vent, and is often used as an online journal or diary. |
| Microblogging | Frequently communicating with a brief message (example: Twitter; 140 characters or less) |
| Podcasts | Audio files on the web that take the format of an audio blog, radio show, or interview. |
| Markup Languages | Markup Languages are a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document. |
| LAN, Network, Server | LAN - A system that links together electronic office equipment, such as computers and word processors, and forms a network within an office or building.
Network - A connection consisting of two or more computers connected for the purpose of communicating and sharing resources.
Server - A computer that processes requests for HTML and other documents that are components of webpages. |
| Media | The Media connecting the clients, servers, peripherals, and networking devices may consist of copper cables, fiber optic cables,, or wireless technologies. |
| Tweet | Frequent communication with 140 characters or less |
| Domain | The section of a network address that shows it as belonging to a certain domain. |
| Domain | The section of a network address that shows it as belonging to a certain domain. |
| URL | Stands for "Uniform Resource Location", the address of a specific web site or file on the internet. |
| Tablet | A mobile device that can access the internet such as the Apple iPad, or Motorola Xoom. |
| internet assigned numbers authority iana | An organization that assigns IP addresses to groups. |
| URI | "Uniform Resource Identifier", generic term for all types of names and addresses that refer to objects on the Web |
| Social Networking | Blogs and wikis provide web visitors with new methods for interacting with websites and other people- a use referred to as social computing or social networking. |
| IP Version 4 (IPv4 | IPv4 was the most widely used version of the Internet Protocol, until IPv6. It defines IP addresses in a 32-bit format. |
| Social Computing | Interacting with websites and other people |
| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | a committee that takes a proactive role in developing recommendations and prototype technologies related to the Web; addresses topics such as web architecture, standards for web designs, and accessibility |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language. Descriptions of how to specify and create a document. Not an document language! |
| internet message access protocol | A protocol used to retrieve email using mail servers. |
| IP Version 6 (IPv6) | IPv6, also called IPng (or IP Next Generation), is the next planned version of the IP address system. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, which increases the number of possible addresses by an exponential amount. IPv6 addresses are so complex, the new system also adds extra security to computers connected to the Internet. |
| Extranet | A network that connects an organization with external partners. |
| IP Address | Unique set of number that identifies each computer using the current internet protocol version. |
| IP | It is a set of rules that work with TCP that control how data is sent between computers and the internet. A unique numerical address that consists of four groups of numbers, called octets. |
| Wiki | a website that can be updated immediately at any time by visitors, using a simple form on a web page |
| TCP | A file breaker, message breaker, is used to transmit files on the internet. |
| Protocol | Rules that describe how clients and servers communicate with each other over a network. |
| top-level domain (TLD) | defines the rightmost part of a domain name, starting with the final period. Examples: .com, .org, .edu |
| HTML5 | HTML is the set of markup symbols or codes placed in a file intended for display on a web browser. HTML5 is a newer version of HTML |
| WAN | WAN stands for Wide Area Network. It is used to link companies across long distances. Provides a link between LANs at different offices. |
| Packets | Files and Messages that are broken down into individual units. |
| World Wide Web | Abbreviated as WWW, the World Wide Web is the graphical user interface to information stored on computers running web servers connected to the internet. |
| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | the development of recommendations - for developers of web content, web authoring tools, web browsers, and other user agents - to facilitate use of the Web by those with special needs |
| Web Host Server | The Web host stores all the pages of your website and makes them available to computers connected to the Internet.
In www.yahoo.com the Web Host Server would be "www" |
| Request For Comments (RFC) | The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is responsible for, this, its a formal document from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) |
| newreader | A computer program for reading messages that have to do with news purposes. |
| Internet Architecture Board (IAB) | The IAB is a committee of the IETF and provides guidance and broad direction to the IETF. The IAB is responsible for the publication of the RFC document series |
| XHTML | Created by the W3C to reformulate HTML4 as an application of XML. It combines the formatting strengths of HTML4 and the data structure of XML |
| Internet Engineering Task Force | The IETF is the principal body engaged in the development of new internet protocol standard specifications. it is an open international community of network designers, operators, and vendors. |
| accessility | anyone and everyone can get information from the internet regardless of any disability they may have |
| Web 2.0 | Signifies the next generation of the web, with technological improvements such as wikis, blogs, and social networking, as well as a much more connected web. |
| Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) | Language used to format documents for the internet. |
| Client/server | A relationship between two computer programs, one a client and one a server.
Client - Requests information from the server.
Server - receives and fulfills requests for data. |
| Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions(MIME) | Rules that allow multimedia documents to me exchanged among many different computer systems. MIME allows for the transfer of seven types of media types; audio, video, images, application, message, multipart, and text. |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | Protocol used to communicate between the clinet computer and the web server. (Uses HTML.) |
| TCP/IP | Stands for "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol". These protocols dealt with the transfer of information over different networks. |
| Backbone | A high-capacity communication link gathered from smaller links interconnecting with it. |
| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) | When you sent an E-mail to another person the server that i used it SMTP. |
| Domain Name Service | The domain name service is a system for converting domain names, or the names typed into your browser to be converted to the ip address of the server. The Domain Name System allows for people to remember names, instead of long random numbers, or IP addresess. |
| Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summery(RSS) | RSS is used to create news feeds from blog postings an other websites. RSS contain a summary of new items posted on the site. |
| XML | Stands for "Extensible Markup Language". It's a language that stores data, but it needs HTML to display that data. |
| Fully Qualified Domain Name | An example of an FQDN is www.google.com. The first part of the name is www which is name of the server. The next part google.com is the Domain Name which is owned by google or another company, and the final part .com is a top level domain, which tells the person what type of website it is. All of these together is the FQDN. |
