| A | B |
|---|
| Internet | Global Network of Networks |
| ARPANET | Department of Defense project |
| Internet Service Provider | Gives you access to the internet for a fee |
| Gopherspace | menu-based information sources |
| World Wide Web | usese hypertext and hypermedia to allow users to navigate |
| FTP Sites | An internet location that allows you to download and upload files |
| Usenet | A network of newsgroups |
| Listserv | a network of mailing lists |
| Thread | the original message on a usenet site, combined with a response |
| telnet | allows you to log on to another computer |
| browsing | to get around the web by moving via hyperlinks |
| URL | a web address |
| applet | a program embedded in a web page that allows you to interact with the web page |
| boolean operators | define how several items are related to one another in a search |
| veronica | a seach feature for gopher sites |
| WAIS | a search feature that searches databases for keywords throughout the document, file, page, etc. |
| Archie | A search feature for FTP sites |
| Search directory | a list of sites arranged by categories |
| Search engine | allows you to search the WWW by keywords |
| Intranet | an internal network |
