Browser - Browsers are the software used to access the Internet and World Wide Web. Netscape Navigator is a browser developed by Netscape Communications which allows you to navigate the Web. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is another popular browser. Most web sites are designed to utilize the power of these browsers. Other browsers are also available including versions from America OnLine and Compuserve.
Domain Name - The name of a particular web site based on alphabetic language conventions in place of the numeric (IP) address assigned to it for recognition by computers along the web. Example: http://www.plexsystech.com. Domain names are applied for and assigned through an agency in Virginia known as Internic. One-time and bi-yearly payments are required by Internic to continue use of a domain name. Web sites may often exist on the Internet without the benefit of their own domain name as they will just operate as a subdivision of an assigned domain name. Example: http://www.plexsystech.com/american/. In this case, plexsystech.com acts as the Host.
DNS - An acronym for Domain Name System. A system by which computers on the Internet translate their numeric IP addresses to more friendly names. For instance, the Big Company may use the name thebigcompany.com, which would be typed into the line on an Internet browser which designates the URL being accessing.
E-mail - Electronic Mail is a means of exchanging private text messages through the Internet and other networks.
FTP - An acronym for File Transfer Protocol. A standard Protocol on the Internet by which people transfer files.
Host - A host is a domain name that has an IP address associated with it. Example: plexsystech.com or (for e-mail purposes) mail.bigcorp.com A host is not just one machine hooked up to the Internet, as one physical machine can now have several "virtual" hosts on it supporting multiple domain names and IP addresses.
HTML or HyperText Markup Language - HyperText Markup Language, the underlying formatting for World-Wide-Web documents.
HTTP - Acronym for HyperText Transport Protocol, the system for requesting HTML documents from the World-Wide-Web.
Hypertext - The fundamental concept that refers to the links that “weaves” pages as well as other media together on the web.
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IP - An acronym for Internet Protocol, the accepted language of the Internet.
IP Address - An IP Addess is an unique numeric address assigned to an Internet site. The numeric address is often converted into an address featuring letters or words, commonly known as a Domain Name. Example: plexsystech.com
JAVA - A client-side language based upon C++ which allows programmers to write one program code for all platforms of computers (Macintosh, Windows 95, UNIX) which make up the Web. These applets as they have been so named, access JAVA code libraries on local clients. Currently this is being handled through browsers (Netscape’s, Microsoft’s, IBM’s, and Sun’s own).
Ultimately the language will minimize the amount of data needed to be transmitted while also being crossplatform. As a result, this will allow more complex stand-alone (not requiring a browser) Internet applications to be developed as the bandwidth will be less of an issue.
Link - A connection to another object, generally a web page, but may be other forms of media on the Internet.
Newsgroup - A meeting place for discussions on different topics. Newsgroups can generally be accessed through the e-mail capabilities within a broswer such as Netscape or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Page or Home Page - A document on the Web containing text, graphics, digital media (movies, sounds), and links to other pages, text, graphics or digital media.
PPP - An acronym for point to point Protocol. An advanced serial packet Protocol commonly used for dial-up connections.
Server - A computer which is set up to “serve up” information upon the request of client computers’.
URL - An acronym for Universal Resource Locator. Allows for HTML documents to call links.
Wide World Web (WWW) or The Web - A portion of the Internet on which resides pages of linked HTML content. The Internet can be though of as the superset to the Web.
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