Some Terms and Definitions
- browser or client
- an interactive program used to access information on the Web
- Internet
- a global networks of networks using the same communications protocol (TCP/IP). The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet.
- server
- software used to deliver information to the client
- URL: Uniform Resource Locator
- the unique address of a file on the WWW
- http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/gilbertp/wfic99/beloit/terms.html
- HTTP: HyperText Transport Protocol
- the protocol (set of rules) used to define client/server communications on the WWW
- HTML: HyperText Markup Language
- the "native" formatting language for documents on the WWW.
