A SHORT AND SIMPLE VOCABULARY
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American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) Blog Browser Cache CAPTCHA Client Deep link Explorer Extensible Markup Language (XML) Filtering Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Hyperlink Hypertext Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Instant Messaging Internet Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) Internet Service Provider (ISP) Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Meta tag Navigator Opera Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) Portable Document Format (PDF) Portal Rating Resource Description Framework (RDF) Search engine Server Shallow link Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Walled garden Wiki Wireless Markup Language (WML) World Wide Web (WWW) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII)
The set of unformatted characters and numbers - that is, plain text - that all computers can understand.
Short for weblog - a personal on-line journal or diary which is usually set out in reverse chronological order - with the newest material at the top - and which points you to other related parts of the Internet.
A programme that allows a person to read information on the Web.
See: Netscape, Explorer, Opera
The place where a browser stores all the files – such as pages and pictures – downloaded from the Web.
See: Browser
An acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart" - a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human, typically requiring that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.
The personal or business computer used to access Web pages held on a server.
See: Server
<Small text files transferred by some Web sites to the computet of the person accessing them so that, when the user returns, the site will immediately be able to identify the user and his or her usage of the site.
A hyperlink to a page of a web site below the home page
See: hyperlink, shallow link
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A computer language for representing the contents of a Web page that is more powerful than HTML and has been developed by the World Wide Web Consortium.
See: Hypertext, HTML, W3C
The name of the browser supplied by Microsoft, now in version 5.5 [click here].
See: Browser, Navigator, Opera
The limitation of the material that may be downloaded to a particular computer at a particular time in accordance with user selection based on rating of Web sites and the use of browser settings or filtering software.
See: Rating, Browser, Filtering, Walled garden
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This is quite simply the best search engine for the Web. It was launched in 1998 as the brainchild of two Stanford University PhD students called Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The name Google is a play on the word googol, coined by the nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner to refer to the number represented by one followed by a hundred zeros.
See: search engine
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
A format for transmitting graphic images – especially clip art - over the Internet, originally created by CompuServe.
See: JPEG
A connection between one web page and another provided through HTML coding on which the user simply clicks.
See: shallow link, deep link
The language used to link information on the Web – a term originally coined by Ted Nelson.
See: HTML, XML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
A computer language for representing the contents of a Web page.
See: Hypertext, XML
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
The computer protocol for transferring information across the Internet in such a way as to meet the demands of a global hypertext system.
See: Hypertext, URL
A real-time communication between two or more Internet users provided through free downloadable software programs, popularised by ICQ (I seek you), but now including other services such as those of Microsoft (MSN) and Yahoo! (Y!M).
The global data network using two particular protocols called Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)
An organisation promoting the self-rating of web sites in terms which can be read by filters set by end users such as parents wishing to block access by their children to certain offensive material [click here].
See: Rating, Filtering
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
An organisation providing connectivity to the Internet and the Web.
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or JPG)
A format for transmitting graphic images – especially photographs – over the Internet.
See: GIF
A word or phrase that enables search engines to identify the content of a Web site.
See: Search engine
The name of the browser supplied by Netscape (originally called Mosaic), now in version 6 [click here].
See: Browser, Explorer, Opera
The name of the browser most used after Explorer and Netscape, now in version 5.01 [click here].
See: Browser, Explorer, Navigator
Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
A system for labelling web sites - not as advanced as RFD
See: Resource Description Framework
Portable Document Format (PDF)
A universal method for viewing and printing documents on different computers, developed by Adobe and based on software called Acrobat Reader which has been downloaded around 500M times.
A kind of Web site that endeavours to provide the full range of content and services that most Web users will want.
A system for assessing the content of a Web site in terms of the extent of the occurrence of particular characteristics, notably such factors as violence, nudity, sec, and language.
See: Filtering, ICRA, Walled garden
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
A system for labelling web sites - more advanced that PICS
See: Platform for Internet Content Selection
A service that enables a user of the Web to locate sites of particular interest by use of particular words.
See: Google, Meta tag
A type of computer which hosts Web pages that are then accessed by clients.
See: Client
A hyperlink to the home page of a web site
See: hyperlink, deep link
Text, audio or video files that can be played as they are downloaded without waiting for the whole file to be downloaded first.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
The address of a particular Web page. It is made up of three parts:
See: HTTP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
The carriage of telephone calls over networks which use the protocols - Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) - of the Internet.
A system for controlling access by particular computers to particular Web sites which have been approved or authorised (typically in the context of the use of PCs in schools).
See: Rating, Filtering
A collection of Web pages which can be edited by anyone, at any time, from anywhere (the word comes from the Hawaiian expression for 'quick').
Link: Wiki Wiki Web FAQs click here
Wireless Markup Language (WML)
A computer language for representing the contents of a Web page in a stripped-down, text-only format that can be accessed by mobile telephones and other devices using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
World Wide Web (WWW or W3 or Web)
The graphical part of the Internet.
See: W3C
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
An organisation set up to develop and recommend new protocols for the World Wide Web.
See: World Wide Web
ROGER DARLINGTON
Last modified on 14 May 2006
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