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Health Links | Glossary of Internet Terms
Glossary of Internet Terms
Browser
Short for Web Browser; it's the tool (program) that allows you to surf the web. You probably used your Web Browser to locate this page. The most popular Web Browsers right now are Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
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Domain Name
The highest level name of the web site. For example, The domain name for USA Today Online is USA today. If you type USA today in the location area on your browser, you will be connected directly to USA Today Online.
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HTML
Hypertext Mark-up Language. HTML is not really a programming language, but a way to format text by placing marks around the text. For example HTML allows you to make a word bold or underline it. Early word processing programs used to work this way. HTML is the foundation for most web pages.
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http
Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A protocol that tells computers how to communicate with each other. You will notice most web page locations begin with "http://"
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Keyword
A word you might use to search for a Web site. For example, searching the Web for the keyword "Dictionary" or "Terms" might help you find this site.
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Location
An Internet address. While you are in your browser (which you are probably in now) you will see a section at the top of the page that is titled "location". If you type in the address of some one's web page and hit enter, your browser will take you to that page. However the address you type in the location bar must be an exact match.
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Protocol
A set of rules that lets computers agree how to communicate over the Internet.
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Search Engine
A Website, which allows you to type a word and/or phrase and it, will give you a list of websites.
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Site
A place on the Internet. Every web page has a location where it resides which is called it's site. And, every site has an address usually beginning with "http://."
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URL
An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It's the address of each web site. It usually begins with "http://"
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WWW
An acronym for the World Wide Web.
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Prepared & researched by:
Palani Guruswamy MSN, RN
Nursing Informatics Coordinator |
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