Blog: A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and
discuss various topics in the form of an online journal Boolean logic: A system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers Browser: A Web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web Cache: In computer science, a cache (, ) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier Compression: encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required Cookie: A cookie (also tracking cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie) is a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browse Domain: A domain is a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in the area of computer programming, known as domain engineering Email: A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network File extension: A suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents Firewall: A part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications FTP: (File Transfer Protocol) A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites Html: (HyperText Markup Language) - A standard language used for creating and publishing documents on the World Wide Web Internet: A worldwide system of interconnected networks allowing for data transmission between millions of computers Intranet: An intranet is an access restricted network used internally in an organization IP address: [Internet Protocol (IP) address] - A unique numeric identifier for a computer on a network ISP packet: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are the Web Site Hosting companies that provide a home for merchant's web sites Netiquette: Code of behaviour or etiquette on the Internet Mirror: An exact duplicate of a web site, usually hosted on a different physical server
Modem: (From a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic
equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line Web design: The design and development of a web site Website: A collection of "web pages" or files linked together and available on the World Wide Web Search engine: A computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) Spiders: A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine TCP/IP: (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) - This set of protocols makes TELNET, FTP, e-mail, and other services possible among computers that don't belong to the same network URL: (Uniform Resource Locator) - the address of a web page on the world wide web Virus: A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer Wiki: A type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content