| A | B |
|---|
| Browser | Software program that interprets WWW documents. |
| Email | electronic mail |
| Frames | Used to divide web sites into sections |
| Home Page | The "cover" of a particular Web site. The main or first page displayed at a web site. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language <b>tags</> tags. Web documents are text files with tags that control their appearance. |
| Internet | Complex system of network wires, computers, nodes that transmit data. |
| IP address | Internet Protocol - identifies each computer on the internet. |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider. |
| Link | Short for "hyperlink." A path that connects from one WWW document to antoher. |
| Plug-ins | Software programs that enable the viewing of file types other than text, GIF or JPEG. |
| POP | Post Office Protocol - the technical name for the way some e-mail servers deliver your mail. |
| Protocol | A set of rules. On the Internet it is a set of rules the computers use to communicate across networks. |
| Search Engines | A computer program that indexes a database and them enables users to search it for relevant information. |
| Signature | A small text file that automatically attaches to the bottom of every message that you send. |
| Surfing | Randomly looking at information on the World Wide Web. |
| Table | A feature that presents ww web information in rows and columns. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator -The Internet Address for a web document or other file. |
| Web Site | A collection of World Wide Web Documents, usually consisting of a home page and several related pages. |
| WWW | World Wide Web - Graphical interface of interconnected community of computers and users. |
| :// | always follows http |
| www.valdosta.edu | host name |
