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Internet Terms and Definitions
Blog – a website where users can create diaries or journals to be viewed on the internet
Chat room – a place on the Internet where users can talk to one another online in real time
e-commerce – business conducted over the internet
Home Page – the first screen that you see when you go to a website
Hyperlink – highlighted words, objects, or graphics in hypertext that link one web page or site to
another
Hypertext – the words or text that appears on a computer screen that are hyperlinks
Internet – A large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide and allowing them
to communicate with one another
Internet Service Provider (ISP) - a company that gives users access to the Internet
Network- a group of computers that are linked together to communicate and share information
Search Engine – A system that finds World Wide Web pages by looking for specific words or phrases
Site Map – a website view that shows the web pages in an outline format
Surfing the Net – an expression that means to search the internet for information
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) – an internet address
Web Browser – a software program that will load and display a Web page
Web Page – a single hypertext document on the World Wide Web devoted to a single topic
or related topics
Web Site – a connected group of pages on the World Wide Web devoted to a single topic
or related topics
World Wide Web (WWW) – a system of interlinked hypertext documents
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