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By Samuel Greengard
Mar. 1, 1997
A list of commonly used terms relating to the Internet and intranets follows.
Domain: The name of a computer or service on the Internet—referred to by the characters following “@” in an online address.
Download: The process of receiving a file from another computer.
Firewall: Hardware or software that protects a private network from an unsecured or public network.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol): An Internet protocol for transferring files to and from another server over a network.
Groupware: An application that enables users to collaborate over a network.
Homepage: The first page of a Web site or group of HTML documents.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): The language in which World Wide Web documents are formatted.
Hyperlink: The linking mechanism that allows a user to jump from one Web page, graphic or document to another.
Internet: World’s largest computer network enabling users to send e-mail, transfer files, participate in newsgroups and access the World Wide Web.
Intranet: A private network that uses Internet software and standards.
Java: An object-oriented language, developed by Sun Microsystems, that creates distributed Web applications.
Newsgroup: An electronic bulletin board on which users can post and exchange messages.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer): Provides authentication and data encryption between a Web server and a Web browser.
Upload: The process of transmitting a file to another computer.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator): A standardized character string that identifies the location of an Internet document. Also known as a Web address.
Web Browser: Software that requests and displays HTML documents and other Internet or intranet data.
World Wide Web: The Internet’s worldwide, HTML-based, hypertext-linked information system.
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