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| Browser | It's the tool (program) that allows you to surf the web.Ex. Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer |
| Chat Room | A place on the Internet where people go to "talk" with other people online. Actually there are thousands of these on the Internet. They are usually organized by topic. When you're in one, you can view all of the conversations taking place at once on your screen. |
| Cookie | The Internet site's way of keeping track of you. It's a small program built into a web page you might visit. Typically you won't know when you are receiving these. |
| Counter | A number on many web pages that will record the number of hits or count the number of times the page has been accessed. Basically, it counts the number of people that have visited that page |
| Cyberspace | Term used to describe the Internet; the term was coined by science-fiction novelist William Gibson in 1984 in Neuromancer. |
| Domain Name | The highest level name of the web site. |
| Download | The transfer of information from the Internet to your computer. |
| E-mail | This tool is usually provided by your ISP. It allows you to send and receive messages and communication over the Internet. |
| Emoticon | :o) If you tilt your head to the left to look at this term, you will see that someone is smiling at you. |
| FTP | It's the tool you would use to transfer files through the Internet from one computer to another. For example, you would use this to upload your web page from where you built it (like your computer at home) to a web site (like this one) so that all of your friends and neighbors can look at it. |
| Gopher | Invented at the University of Minnesota and named after its mascot, this is the direct precursor, in both concept and function, to the World Wide Web. |
| HTML | It is not really a programming language, but a way to format text by placing marks around the text. For example it allows you to make a word bold or underline it. Early word processing programs used to work this way. It is the foundation for most web pages. |
| http | A protocol that tells computers how to communicate with each other. You will notice most web page locations begin with it |
| Hacker | a person who breaks into a site through a computer's security |
| Hypertext | Text on a web page that links the user to another web page. These links will usually be a different color than the other text on the page and is usually underlined. |
| Host | The computer on which a web site is physically located. |
| ISP | This is your connection to the Internet. You use it to connect onto the Internet every time you log on. Some examples are AOL, SWBell, PDQ, EV1 |
| Internet | Originally called ARPANET after the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. This electronic network connects the hosts together so that you may go from one web page to another efficiently. The electronic connection began as a government experiment in 1969 with four computers connected together over phone |
| Java | A programming language that developers use to create applets, small programs that are embedded in Web pages and that run when a user accesses the page or clicks on a certain area. If you have visited sites that play sounds, have animated figures trotting across the screen, or display scrolling text, you have already seen it. |
| Hyperlink | A link will transport you from one Internet site to another with just a click of your mouse. Links can be text or graphic and are recognizable once you know what to look for. Text links usually will be underlined and often a different color than the rest of the text on your screen. A graphic link usually has a frame around it. |
| Modem | Short for Modulator-demodulator devices. These allow computers to transmit information to one another via an ordinary telephone line. |
| Online | Having access or being connected to the Internet. |
| Protocol | A set of rules that lets computers agree how to communicate over the Internet. |
| Scroll | To look at the parts of the page that fall below (or above) what you see on your screen. |
| Site | A place on the Internet. Every web page has a location where it resides |
| Spam | The Internet version of junk mail |
| Surfing | The process of "looking around" the Internet. |
| Trojan Horse | Viruses that pretend to be one thing when in fact they are something else. Typically, they take the form of a game that deletes files while the user plays. |
| URL | It's the specific and unique address of each web site. It usually begins with "http://" |
| Upload | The process of transferring information from your computer to another computer through the Internet. |
| User ID | This is the unique identifier (like your logon name) that you use to identify yourself on a computer. |
| Virus | This can wipe out information on your computer and create major havoc. They usually originate from malicious people. You can unintentionally download one from a web site or get it from a disk that someone has lent you. |
| Web Page | Every time you are on the Internet, you are looking at one. It is a single link within a web |
| World Wide Web | A full-color, multimedia database of information on the Internet. |
