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✔✔Cable - ✔✔A type of Internet connection offered to subscribers by cable television
companies.
✔✔DSL - ✔✔(digital subscriber line) A high-speed Internet connection that uses existing
telephone lines, requiring proximity to a switching station
✔✔Satellite - ✔✔A high-speed Internet service that uses a geosynchronous or low-
earth orbit satellite to send data directly to satellite dishes owned by individuals.
✔✔FTTH - ✔✔(fiber-to-the-home) A communication link that connects subscribers'
homes using fiber-optic cable.
✔✔Backbone - ✔✔The major communications links that form the core of the Internet.
✔✔ISP - ✔✔(Internet service providers_ Companies that provide Internet access to
businesses, organizations, and individuals.
✔✔The Web - ✔✔An Internet-based collection of linked HTML documents identified by
URLs and accessed using browsers and the HTTP protocol.
✔✔Web Server - ✔✔A computer that listens for queries from Web browsers and
transmits HTML documents over the Internet.
Web Site A group of Web pages
✔✔Web Site - ✔✔A group of Web pages accessible at a specific Web address that
holds a collection of information identified by a common domain name, such as
www.cnn.com.
✔✔Web Page - ✔✔Information displayed by a Web browser that's produced from an
HTML document or generated on the fly from data in a database.
Hypertext/Hypertext Links Also referred to
✔✔Hypertext/Hypertext Links - ✔✔Also referred to simply as links; words, phrases, or
images on a Web page that, when clicked, take you to designated URLs.
✔✔URL - ✔✔Uniform Resource Locator) The address of a Web page.
✔✔Web Browser - ✔✔A program that communicates with a Web server and displays
Web pages
, ✔✔Browser Cache - ✔✔The collection of HTML pages and images that is stored locally
by a browser and used to quickly load pages that have been previously viewed without
waiting for them to be downloaded again.
✔✔Plugin - ✔✔A software module that adds a specific feature to a system. In the
context of browsers, a plugin adds the ability to display or play various additional file
formats.
✔✔Extension - ✔✔A module of computer code that adds capabilities to a browser, such
as the ability to block ads on Web pages.
✔✔HTTP - ✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol) The communications protocol used to
transmit Web pages. HTTP:// is an identifier that appears at the beginning of Web URLs
(for example, http://www.fooyong.com).
✔✔HTTPS - ✔✔(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) The protocol used to create
secure connections for ecommerce by adding a layer of encryption.
✔✔Cookies - ✔✔A message sent from a Web server to a browser and stored on a
user's hard disk, usually containing information about the user.
✔✔Dynamic - ✔✔A way of displaying data from a database as customized Web pages,
which are generated as the page is sent to the browser.
✔✔Static Web Page - ✔✔A Web page that does not change once it is displayed on the
screen by a browser.
✔✔Client-Side - ✔✔Program code that is executed by a client's browser, as opposed to
being executed by the server.
✔✔Markup Language - ✔✔A language that provides text and graphics formatting
through the use of tags. Examples of markup languages include HTML, XML, and
SGML.
✔✔Tags - ✔✔A set of instructions, such as <B>, inserted into an HTML document to
provide formatting and display information to a Web browser
✔✔HTML5 - ✔✔The current version of HTML.
✔✔CSS - ✔✔(Cascading Style Sheets) Used in conjunction with HTML, a means of
formatting the appearance of text and other elements of a Web page.
✔✔Web Crawler - ✔✔Combs the Web to gather data that's representative of the
contents of Web pages