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chapter1
Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web
Term | Definition |
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WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO | dedicated to protecting intellectual property rights internationally. |
CREATIVE COMMONS | a non profit organization that provides free services that allow authors and artist to register a type of copyright license. |
CLIENT | are computer workstations used by individuals such as PC. |
(LAN) LOCAL AREA NETWORK | is usually confined to a single building or group of connected buildings. |
(WAN) WIDE AREA NETWORK | geographically dispersed and usually uses some form of public or commercial communication |
BACKBONE | high capacity communication link that carries data gathered form smaller links that interconnect with it. |
CLIENT/SERVER | relationship between two computer programs |
(MIME) MULTIPURPOSE INTERNET MAIL EXTENSION | rules that allow multimedia documents to be exchanged among many different computer systems. |
(FTP) FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL | allows files to be exchanged between computers on the internet. |
(HTTP) HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL | set of rules for exchanging files such as text, images, video, etc. |