Thursday , August 28 , 2008
Internet Terminology
| Bandwidth | A measure of the capacity of a communication channel. The higher the bandwidth the more information it can carry |
| Binary | Information number system consisting entirely of zeros and ones. |
| Broadband | Comes from the words “broad bandwidth” and is a high capacity two way linking between the end user and the access network suppliers. |
| Browser | Software program used to view and interact with internet resources on the internet. |
| Cookie | Small data files written to a user’s hard drive by the web server through the web browser. |
| Domain name | A unique name that identifies an internet site. |
| Download | Transferring data from a remote computer to the users computer. Opposite of upload. |
| Email | Comes from the words “electronic mail”. Messages that are sent and received through computers on a network. |
| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) | A Protocol that is used to transmit files between computers and the internet. |
| Hit | As used in reference to the World Wide Web is a single request from the web browser for a single item on the web server. |
| Home Page | The opening page or the main page that appears when you visit a website. |
| HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) | The coding syntax used to write world wide web documents which are read by web browsers. |
| HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) | The communication protocol that enables web browsing. |
| Hypertext | Any text that contains links to other documents |
| IRC (Internet Relay Chat) | A massive network of text based chat channels |
| Network | A group of computers, connected by a telecommunications link, that share information. |
| Ping (Packet Internet Groper) | A utility that forwards data packets to check the quality of a link. |
| Server | A computer that delivers information and software to other computers linked by a network. |
| Spam | Unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. |
| Spyware | Any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. |
| Upload | To transfer a file from a desktop computer onto a web server. |
| Virus | Self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents |
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