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Graves Web Terms
Graves World Wide Web Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Software that allows users to access and navigate the contents of the Internet. Examples are Edge, Chrome, and Safari. | Browser |
| Electronic messages sent over the Web, but not in real-time (like letters, not like texting or calling). | |
| A real-time electronic conversation done through the Web, often using text, but possibly also video. | Chat |
| The whole electronic collection of information posted on websites. It includes text, audio, video, graphics, files, and services. | World Wide Web (WWW) |
| A location on the World Wide Web where information is presented using graphics, text, and sound. May contain one or more web pages, like msn.com or ccsd.net. | Website |
| A website that has a database (or catalog) of the contents of other websites. It provides a list of sites that contains words that are searched for. Popular examples are Google or Bing. | Search Engine |
| The address required to connect to a website. | URL (Uniform Resource Locator) |
| The first page of a website. | Home Page |
| Moving from one website to another using hyperlinks. | Surfing the Web |
| The computer language that is used to create a webpage with links that let you go to other webpages. | HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) |
| A highlighted word or graphic in a website that takes a user to a different location on the Internet. | Hyperlink |
| The set of manners and rules of conduct for Internet users. | Netiquette |
| A small file on your computer that has information about your behavior and identifies your device, but allows you faster access to a website. | Cookie |
| Unwanted and unsolicited email, often rude. This also refers to messages that are repeatedly sent, or messages that are sent out to many, many users at once. | SPAM |
| A document coded in HTML that is made to be seen using web browsers and that lets you navigate to other, similar documents. | Webpage |
| A program (or bot) that searches through the contents of websites to add to a search engine's database. | Spider |
| A word used as part of a query with a search engine. The more of these used, the more focused the search, | Keyword |
| A search request in a search engine. | Query |
| The number of search results returned. | Hits |