Internet- electronic network connects the hosts together so that you may go from one page to another.
The electronic connection began as a government experiment in 1969 with four computers
connected together over phone lines.
Return to List World Wide Web- A full-color, multimedia database of information on the Internet. the World Wide Web is a
universal mass of web pages connected together through links.
Return to List ARPANET- after the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPA proceeded to
to implement what quickly became called the ARPAnet, which then became the INTERNET.
Return to List CERN- birthplace of the World Wide Web.CERN is one of the world’s largest scientific laboratories and an
outstanding example of international collaboration of its many member states. Imagemaps that are
seen on the Web used to be coded in a format developed by CERN.
Return to List Internet Explorer- Microsoft's Web browser. One of the rival browsers of Netscape, Internet Explorer supports
many of the Netscape HTML extensions, as well as some innovative ones of its own (such as
bgsound src, allowing a sound file to automatically load when a Web page is accessed). The
Explorer is available for Macintosh computers as well as Windows 3.1, Windows NT and
Windows 95.
Return to List URL - Universal Resource Locator, it's the address of each web site. It usually begins with "http://".
Return to List HTML- Hypertext Mark-up Language, HTML is realy not a programming language, but a way to format text
by pllacing marks around the text. HTML is the foundation for most web pages.
Return to List HTML Block Tags- Block tags are used to format the appearance of large blocks of text.
Return to List HTML Text Tag- The tag creates text fields in HTML forms.
Return to List Attributes- These supply extra information to your browser. Sometimes you can add data to an
attribute. When putting a picture on a page, you would use an image tag. What picture
is to be used, is specified in an attribute. You add a filename to this attribute. This
last bit of information is always put between quotation marks. In short: a tag tells a
browser WHAT to do, an attribute tells it HOW to do it.
Return to List DHTML- Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up Language. DHTML is an HTML extension that allows web pages to react to the
end users' input, such as displaying a web page based on the type of browser or computer end users
are viewing a page with.
Return to List CSS- Cascading Style Sheet, a new feature of HTML developed by the W3C. With Cascading Style sheets, both
web designers and end users can create style templates (sheet) that specifies how different text
elements (paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, etc.) appear on a web page. Currently, not all
browsers support CSS.
Return to List HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol, a protocol that tells the computer how to communicate with each
other. You will notice most web page locations begin with "http://".
Return to List FTP- File Transfer Protocol, It's the tool you would use to transfer files through the Internet from
one computer to another. You would use an FTP 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.
Return to List TCP/IP- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, This set of protocols makes TELNET, FTP,
e-mail, and other services possible among computers that don't belong to the same
network.
Return to List Domain- The highest level name of the web site. For example, The domain name for ESPN is espn.
If you type espn in the location area on your browser, you will be connected
directly to ESPN. A site does not have to have its own domain name. I use
geocities to host my web site and thus their domain name is included in my Internet
address: http://www.oocities.org/getrich01/index.html.
Return to List JavaScript- Javascript is a scripting language developed by Netscape. Javascript can make
web pages more animated and dynamic in terms of graphics and navigation. One
of the most common graphic Javascript effects is called a mouseover, and Javascript
navigation is commonly created using drop-down menus.
Return to List Pixel- Any one of the individual "dots" which actually makes up an electronic image.
Return to List Object- Not all programming languages use this object model; the ones that do are said to
be object-oriented.
Return to List W3C- World Wide Web Consortium, The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible
information. The World Wide Web Consortium exists to realize the full potential of the Web.
Return to List .GIF- Graphics Interchange Format. GIF images are the most widely used graphic format on the web.
GIF images display up to 256 colors.
Return to List .JPG- Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. File format for full-color and black-and-white
graphic images. JPEG images allow for more colors than GIF images and are usually smaller
in size.
Return to List Root Directory- The top level in a hierarchical file system. For example on a PC, the root directory
of your C: drive contains all the second-level subdirectories on that drive.
Return to List encryption- A way of making data unreadable to everyone except the receiver. An increasingly common
way of sending credit card numbers over the Internet when conducting commercial
transactions.
Return to List index.html- A file called index.html is usually the starting point or home page for a Web site.
A server is usually configured to display automatically the index.html or .htm file
when a request for a certain directory comes to the server, therefore, the "default"
page that comes up when you type in a URL like http://www.netlingo.com would be
http://www.getrich01.com/index.html.
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