Browser
A software
program which lets you roam the World Wide Web. Netscape and
Microsoft's Internet Explorer are the primary browsers on the
market.
Website
- web page - Internet address - Universal Resource Locater (URL)
A URL is
a Universal (sometimes referred to as "Uniform") Resource Locator.
It is a general purpose internet addressing protocol, or in
more simple terms, the address where you can find something.
Both e-mail and URLs are referred to as "addresses," as in,
"What's your e-mail address?" or "What's your website address?
What, you don't have a website?"
Examples:
http://www.cnn.com metayel@earthlink.net
Internet
Service Provider (ISP)
The is the
company which sets up the servers to let you onto the web. In
Armenia these include: (to be completed)
Server
A server
is a central computer through which all of the information flows.
A company or agency may have a server (the Department of Juvenile
Justice has several), or an individual may have a server.
Electronic
mail (e-mail)
Everyone's
favorite. Eighty percent of the people on the net use e-mail only.
Chat
groups (IRC)
"Real-time"
conversation (via keyboard and monitor) made famous by AOL, and
now available to almost anyone who is connected to the web.
Newsgroups
One
of the great sources of information and discussion on the net,
the approximately 20,000 newsgroups cover a great variety of topics.
The
World Wide Web (WWW)
The world wide web,
or HyperText Transfer Protocol, is a connectionless client/server
protocol that was invented in 1993 by Tim Berners Lee at CERN (European
Laboratory for Particle Physics).
What
is it used for?
- Research and
education
- Shopping
- Games
- Information
sharing
- Other
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