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| Internet | The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use theÊTCP/IPÊprotocols |
| IP Address | A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots,
e.g. 165.113.245.2
Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique one |
| ISP | A company that sells Internet connections |
| Packet | The pieces of a data stream, image , or media file sent over the internet and
reassembled at the receiving device |
| Server | A computer running software, and assigned an IP Address and connected to the
internet, in order to send documents via the WWW. |
| Client | An individual computer on a network that runs its own programs
and processes information received from a central server. |
| Browser | Software that will load and display a web page. |
| Decentralization | Distributed structure of the internet. No single point can lead to failure
because the network has multiple points of entry. |
| World Wide Web | he World Wide Web is an Internet protocol that makes use of the HTML,
hypertext, and hypermedia to create pages with links to other pages. |
| HTML | The coding system used to create WWW pages. A page written iof this code
is a text file that includes tags in angle brackets |
| IXP | is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers (ISPs) exchange Internet traffic between their networks |
| HTTP | is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide We |
| Protocol | Sometimes referred to as an access method, itl is a standard used to define a method of exchanging data over a computer network |
