| A | B |
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| World Wide Web | Service of the Internet in which pages created by companies, schools, and government agencis are linked to one another |
| Web Browser | Software program that displays the information you retrieve from the Internet |
| Internet Explorer | Web Browser that comes with Office 2003 |
| Home Page | The start page of any Web Site |
| Download | Process of copying files from the Internet to your own computer |
| Hyperlink | Appears as underlined or colored text or as graphic - when clicked takes you to a new page of related information |
| Web Address | Unique address - every web site has one |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| Search Engine | Software program that searches the Web and indexes home pages |
| Boolean Operators | A word or symbol that narrows a search to give more specific information |
| Domain Name | suffix that identifes a web site |
| Directory | Displays information on major topic headings which are broken down into smaller topics |
| Links | Connections to specific locations on the Web |
| Path | Identifies disks and any folders relative to location of a document |
| Server | Remote computer |
| Internet | A network of computers that makes the excange of information possible |
| Client | Another name for a browser |
| Internet Service Provider | Special hardware and software to connect you to the Internet |
| HTTP | Hypertext transfer protocol - enables computers to talk to each other |
