Some of the
most commonly used terminologies related to www are:
Website:
Website is
the location of web pages created by any Organizations, Universities, and
Government agencies to provide information regarding them like: www.computerdashboard.com Each any
every website has its own address, is called Internet address. After connecting
to the Internet, we have to search any information by using related website
address.
Webpage:
Webpage is
the collection of information that is stored in the website. The www consists
of a huge collection of documents with related websites called Webpage. Webpage
provides vast amount of information of related websites.
Browser:
A Browser
is a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most
popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Both
of these are graphical browsers, which mean that they can display graphics as
well as text. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia
information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some
formats.
Browser is
a client server that allows a user to display and interact with a hypertext
documents.
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Remember, along with a computer equipped with a
modem, you need a piece of software called a web browser to navigate the Web.
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Internet Explorer and Netscape are examples of
web browsers.
Web Server:
A computer
that is maintained by a system administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)
and that responds to requests from a user’s browser. A web server is a site on
which the Web Pages are kept. It is a program that responds to requests from
web browsers to retrieve resources.
Home Page:
The
Homepage is the first hypertext document regarding the web address displayed
when a user connects to any web server.
Hyperlink:
An element
is an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or
to an entirely different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow
the link. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext
systems, including the World Wide Web.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML):
HTML is the
encoding schema used to create a web document.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL):
URL is a web-addressing
scheme that spells our exact location of an Internet resource.
ISP(Internet Service Provider):
To access
the Internet, you need a computer equipped with a modem and web browser, but
you’ll also need an ISP.
Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) are companies that provide access to the Internet and
the World Wide Web (WWW).
When you sign a contract with an ISP, you are
given a telephone number, a user name, a password, and other connection
information so you can connect your computer to the ISP’s computers. An ISP
typically charges a monthly and/or hourly connection fees.
The ISP
software package usually includes:
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Username. A unique name used to gain access to a
computer system.
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Password. A combination of keyboard characters.
Used in combination with a username, passwords allow access to restricted
computer information. It is important to keep passwords secret.
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Access phone number. For example, (977) 2-25480
aIf
you connect to the Internet at work, you may be part of a LAN (Local area
network) that shares network resources. To gain Internet access, your employer
contracted with an ISP.
