| A | B |
| Internet | network of computers or systems that are interconnected |
| TCP/IP | share this common protocol |
| Protocol | set of rules by which two machines talk to each other |
| electronic mail connection | e-mail only |
| direct connection | used by companies and educational inst.; T1 |
| ISDN connection | carries large amounts of informatoin |
| shell connection | dialup service; installation and monthly fee |
| commercial online service | America Online; fee for specific hours |
| 1969 | Internet began |
| ARPANET | First internet |
| Multimedia | text, audio, graphics, video |
| 1989 | WWW began |
| World Wide Web | makes application possible on Internet |
| HTTP | basis for Web development; Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| Hypertext | movement of data in nonlinear manner |
| Links | Connect to other sources |
| HTML | Language used to develop Web pages; Hypertext Markup Language |
| URL | address; Uniform Resource Locator |