Intro to Internet/WWW

Terms You Should Know

The purpose of this lesson is to collect a list of terms about the Internet and World Wide Web that a beginning user should know.

Each term is linked to its definition at the Free Online Dictionary of Computing (If the links below do not work, try http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc, http://foldoc.usefulcontent.org, or http://www.foldoc.org).

History & Culture	Technology	Use	Creating Content
Andreessen, Marc Berners-Lee, Tim Bush, Vannevar Cerf, Vint cyberspace IETF ICANN W3C Internet Society	client domain name ftp hardware host http internet intranet network packet protocol router server software telnet	chat computer DSL email flame home page login modem modem, cable hypertext ICQ Internet IRC ISP MUD plugin spam URL Usenet Web browser WWW Web page Web site	cookie CGI HTML Java multimedia spider XHTML

Exercise: Talk about these terms

If someone stopped you in the street and demanded to know your definition of these terms, what would you say?