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| Stands for "World Wide Web." It is important to know that this is not a synonym for the Internet. The World Wide Web, or just "the Web," as ordinary people call it, is a subset of the Internet. The Web consists of pages that can be accessed using a Web browser. |
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| The actual network of networks where all the information resides. Things like |
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| The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the method used to transfer Web pages to your computer. With hypertext, a word or phrase can contain a link to another Web site. |
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| Stands for "Hypertext Markup Language." HTML is the language used to create webpages. "Hypertext" refers to the hyperlinks that an HTML page may contain. "Markup language" refers to the way tags are used to define the page layout and elements within the page. |
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| A text box in a web browser displaying the address of the web page that is currently being viewed- home to the URL. |
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| The part of a network address that identifies it as belonging to a particular domain. |
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| The part of a network address that identifies it as belonging to a particular domain. |
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| Start or set in motion(an activity or enterprise) |
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| A location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web. |
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Can be used like the template of a form letter to either generate a large
number of "static" (unchanging) web pages in advance, or to produce
"dynamic" web pages on demand. |
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