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| Network | Is an arrangement of computers that are connected in a way that they can communicate and share information with each other. |
| Internet | 1. Is a vast global network made up of many smaller networks that are connected together so that they can communicate and share information. 2. It is the network that allows users to access documents on the WWW. 3. It is a collection of hardware connections |
| Service Provider | Is the “middleman” that provides the connection to the Internet |
| ISP | 1. Internet Service Provider 2. For a fee, you “subscribe” in order to gain access to the Internet through the ISP’s network. |
| Client | Any computer that requests a service or resource from another computer on the network. |
| Server | Any computer that provides services or resources to other computers that request them. |
| Web Server | Hosts or stores a company’s or an individual’s web site. |
| Web Site | Collection of interconnected pages of information about a company, person, product, or service. |
| Dial-up Connection | 1. Uses standard analog telephone lines and a modem that is installed inside of the computer. 2. You must establish a connection each time you want to access the Internet |
| Modem | Physically connects to the telephone network using a standard telephone wire. |
| DSL | 1. Digital Subscriber Line 2. A cable Internet connection 3. A direct connection to the Internet that is always “on” |
| NIC | 1. Network Interface Card 2. Required to send and receive data back and forth between the computer and the network – a direct connection |
| WAP | 1. Wireless Access Point 2. Wireless connection that sends and receives radio signals |
| WWW | 1. World Wide Web 2. A vast collection of “connected” documents available on the Internet |
| Web Pages | Documents hosted on Web Servers |
| Hyperlinks | 1. Links to other pages located on web servers around the Internet 2. They form the connection that make the World Wide Web possible |
| Web Browser | 1. Is a software program that enables you to view and navigate web pages on the Internet 2. Most basic job is to display documents created with HTML 3. It provides the way to interact with a variety of media on the Internet 4. They use networking protocols to communicate with Web Servers on the Internet |
| HTML | 1. Hypertext Markup Language 2. Special language that turns documents and other resources into a web page |
| URL | 1. Uniform Resource Locator 2. Specific address to documents and other resources on the WWW. 3. Consists of 2 parts |
| Protocol Identifier | 1. Is the first part of a web address that comes BEFORE the colon (:) and forward slashes // EXAMPLE http://www.google.com |
| Resource Name | 1. Everything that comes AFTER the colon (:) and forward slashes // 2. Specifies the location of a specific web page or file 3. http://www.google.com 4. Also called the Domain Name |
| Protocol | A set of rules that that enable computing devices to communicate with each other |
| HTTP | 1. HyperText Transfer Protocol 2. The set of rules used to request web pages from a web server 3. Web Servers use these set of rules to send web pages to the computers that request them |
| FTP | 1. File Transfer Protocol 2. Commonly used to transfer large files between a computer and a special type of server called an FTP Server |
| FTP Server | 1. File Transfer Protocol Server 2. To transfer a file you must specify the ftp protocol in the address bar EXAMPLE ftp://aeneas.mit.edu |
| Domain Name | Typically has 3 labels separated by periods Server Name, Registered Domain, Top-level Domain |
| Server Name | Identifies the name of the web server |
| Registered Domain Name | Identifies the organization that owns the domain name |
| Top-level Domain | Identifies the category of the registered domain name |
