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A set of rules that govern how documents written in HTML are interpreted and displayed through a browser.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
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A very large wide area network (WAN) that connects computers and networks around the world.
Internet
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A group of networked computers that are all in one building, users can share hardware, software, and information.
LAN (Local Area Network)
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A program that interprets hypertext documents on the Web and displays them on screen.
Browser
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A structure that handles major traffic in a networks system, like a highway.
Backbone
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Use of technologies to process, distribute, and manage information among people and machines.
Information Technology
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A high-speed network, created in the 1980s, to interconnect supercomputing centres and to give academic and research centres access to one another for exchanging information.
NSFNet
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An early version of the Internet by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense the linked together mainframe computers to form a communications network.
ARPANet
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Created in the 1980s, used mainly by defence agencies and the military.
MILNet
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A set of rules or standards designed to enable computers to connect with one another and to exchange information with as little error as possible.
Protocol
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A system that connects computers over a large geographical area to allow sharing of software, hardware, and information.
WAN (Wide Area Network)
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Hypertext document links that, when selected, lead Internet users to another WWW page or another place within the same document.
Hyperlinks
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Web page adressess
URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
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This calculating machine was considered to be the first computer.
Abacus
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A standard network protocol for communication across networks.
TCP/IPĀ (Transfer Communication Protocol/Internet Protocol)
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A computer scripting language used to create and display files on the Internet.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
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Local user networks providing access to the Internet's information and communication services.
Internet Service Providers
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