World Wide Web (WWW) -- This is the GUI (graphical user interface) for the Internet using tags and scripting formats. You can transfer images, video, music text, graphics, etc.
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APRAnet -- Was an Army network. The government answer to communication in case of nuclear attack cut off communications. This was the beginning of what we call the Internet.
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CERN -- This was the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. While working for them, Tim Berners Lee developed the first HTML language and the backbone of the Internet.
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Internet Explorer -- One of the most popular browsers (Netscape being second). Browsers enable you to browse the Internet or surf.
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URL (Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator) -- It is displayed in the address bar at the top of your browser window. It describes the location of the file your browser is displaying or loading.
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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) -- A powerful software technology that allows applications on the Internet to have GUI interfaces.
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HTML Block Tag -- Examples of black tags are body and the H1 through H12. They designate whether your text is a title, a heading, or a body.
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HTML Text Tag -- These are also called font tags, which can center, bold or underline your text.
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Attributes -- These are colors or they can make your font a different size.
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DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language) -- An entire web page; elements, forms, frames, tables, etc. that is represented in an object hierarchy. Using scripting, an author is able to retrieve and modify any properties or attributes of the Web page dynamically.
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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) -- This allows you to specify the style of your page elements (spacing, margins, etc.) separately from the structure of your document (section headers, body, links, etc.). Thus allowing greater manageability and makes changing the style of your document easier.
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HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) -- A format used by most URL's. It's an Internet protocol that enables the distribution of hypertext documents.
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) -- An old but popular method for making data available over the Internet. You typically access these sites via hyperlink and many have restricted access.
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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Inter networking Protocol) -- TCP ensures that messages were properly routed from sender to receiver and that those messages arrived in tact. IP is an ARPA development helping to create the "network of networks," which is the architecture of the Internet.
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Domain -- A group of computers and devices on a network that are administered as a unit with common rules and procedures. Within the Internet, domains are defined by the IP address. All devices sharing a common part of the IP address are said to be in the same domain.
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JavaScript -- A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites.
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Pixel -- Short for Picture Element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together that they appear connected.
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Object -- Generally, any item that can be individually selected and manipulated. This can include shapes and pictures that appear on a display screen as well as less tangible software entities.
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W3C (World Wide Consortium) -- An international consortium of companies involved with the Internet and the Web.
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.GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) -- A bit-map graphics file format used by the World Wide Web.
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.JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) -- A glossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce file sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression.
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Root Directory -- The top directory in a file system.
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