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SPECIAL REPORT - TECHNOLOGY
A glossary of tech terms for the novice |
Browser: Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are browsers. They are needed to view the graphics and text of the World Wide Web.
Click: The basic action for touring the Internet. You move a small cursor on the screen to a link or a typing space and click the mouse button.
Domain: If you buy a URL, you are buying a domain name i.e. YOURNAME@peninsulasonline.com.
Download: Moving a file from the Internet or e-mail to your computer.
eCommerce: Any sales completed through the Web.
e-mail: Sending messages back and forth via the internet using any e-mail address such as biznews@wetapple.com or writer@harbornet.com.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol. No frills list of files available for download.
http://: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Now forget what it means. No one needs to type this in as part of a Web address any longer.
Internet: Network of computers where files, documents, and other data can flow.
JPG: [pronounced Jay-Peg] The most common image format used on the Web.
Link: A word, phrase or picture that when clicked goes to another Web page or can start a file download.
Search engine: The starting place for more than 50 percent of casual Web users. Sites such as google.com, dogpile.com and altavista.com among many others allow Web citizens to type in keywords and find Web sites about those words or with those words.
URL: Universal Resource Locator, short for any www.ADDRESS.com. As in, “What’s your URL?”
Web page: One page within a Web site.
Web site: A series of connected pages under the same URL.
World Web Web: The part of the Internet that has become geared toward mass consumption. |
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