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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| electronic mail | |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| Home Page | is the first web page the user sees when he enters a web site. |
| Internet | a global network of networks |
| ISP | provides Internet services to any connected user. |
| World Wide Web | is a collection of electronic pages accessed by using the Internet. |
| Web Site | a collection of web pages for a single domain/organization |
| Web Page | is a document on the World Wide Web that stores textual information |
| URL | is an address for the Internet. |
| Search Engine | A web site or web page on the Internet that allows users to find web sites |
| access point | device which collects wireless signals and sends them to the network |
| hotspot | a location to connect to the Internet wirelessly |
| protocols | a set of rules for communicating on a network |
| IP | Internet protocol |
| internet protocol | Universal addressing system for computers on the Internet |
| TCP | transmission control protocol |
| transmission control protocol | prepares data for communication on the Internet |
| bps | bits per second |
| bandwidth | maximum possible speed for transmitting on a network |
| broadband | high speed communication |
| domain name | unique name for identifying a network or Internet site on the Internet |
| TLD | top level domain |
| top level domain | identifies the kind of site a domain name is |
| edu | education |
| mil | military |
| gov | governement |
| com | commercial |
| net | network of interests |
| org | non-profit organization |
| W3C | world wide web consortium |
| url | uniform resource locator |
| hyperlink | something to click to open a URL |
| ! | commentscreating comments within your HTML code. |
| !doctype | specifying which version of HTML the document is using. This is referred to as the document type declaration (DTD). |
| a | creating a hyperlink to either another document |
| b | specifying bold text. |
| base | tag is used to specify a base URI |
| blockquote | indicating long quotations (i.e. quotations that span multiple lines). |
| body | indicating the main content section of document. The body tag is placed between the </head> and the </html> tags. |
| br | specifying a line break. |
| caption | creating table captions. |
| cite | indicating a citation. |
| code | indicating a piece of code. The code tag surrounds the code being marked up. |
| col | specifying column properties for each column within a colgroup. |
| colgroup | specifying properties for a group of columns within a table. |
| dd | specifying a definition description in a definition list. |
| div | used for defining a section of your document.it can group large sections of HTML elements together and format them with CSS. For example |
| dl | declaring a definition list. |
| dt | specifying a definition term in a definition list. |
| h1 | specifying level 1 headings |
| h2 | specifying level 2 headings |
| h3 | specifying level 3 headings |
| h4 | specifying level 4 headings |
| h5 | specifying level 5 headings |
| h6 | specifying level 6 headings |
| head | indicating the head section of document. |
| hr | creating a horizontal rule. |
| html | the container that contains all other HTML elements (except for the !DOCTYPE tag which is located before the opening html tag). All other HTML elements are nested between the opening <html> and </html> tags. |
| i | specifying text in italics. |
| img | embedding images into an HTML document. |
| li | specifying a list item in ordered |
| link | defining a link to an external document. It is placed in in the <head> section of the document. |
| map | defining an image map. |
| meta | declaring metadata for document. |
| object | embedding an object within an HTML document. Use this tag to embed multimedia in your web pages. |
| ol | specifying an ordered list (or numbered list). |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transmission Protocol |
| Hypertext Transmission Protocol | Protocol for sending/receiving Web documents |
| Hypertext Markup Language | Language used to mark up text documents and turn them into web pages |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| Internet Relay Chat | simple text chatting |
| finger | Original search |
| ftp | file transfer protocol |
| file transfer protocol | protocol used to transfer files across the Internet |