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