Unlike many computer networks, the Internet
consists of not one but multiple data systems
that were developed independently.
Key terms
• Hyperlinks-In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader
can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a
whole document or to a specific element within a document.
• HTML-Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text
files to achieve font, colour, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide
Web pages.
• URL-URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is a formatted text
string used by Web browsers, email clients and other software to identify a
network resource on the Internet.
• Web Server-The term web server can refer to either the hardware or the
software that helps to deliver web content that can be accessed through
the Internet. The most common use of web servers is to host websites, but
there are other uses such as gaming, data storage or running enterprise
applications.
• Web Browser-a program used to view HTML documents
• Search Engines-a program that searches for and identifies items in a
database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user,
used especially for finding particular sites on the Internet.
Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve
font, colour, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. HTML is the
script (code) that websites are wrote in.
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is a formatted text string used by Web
browsers, email clients and other software to identify a network resource on the Internet.
URL is the address of a website.
A program used to view HTML documents. web browser (commonly referred to as a
browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information
resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of
content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers
to related resources.
A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to
keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites
on the Internet.