Vocabulary
ANGLE BRACKETS: These two characters < and > appear on your keyboard as [shift key] + comma and [shift key] + period. They are used to set HTML tags off from the rest of the text on the page. All HTML tags are surrounded by these two symbols.
ARPAnet (or, ARPANET)- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense
Computer- also called processor. An electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Cf. analog computer, digital computer.
Directory path - This part of sometimes left out. If you don't see it, it means that the file you are looking at in located in the "top level" directory on the computer you are accessing. We usually can't see the name of this "top level" directory.
Domain name- the last part of this designation tells us something about who owns the computer or what it is used for.
DOWNLOAD To copy or receive files from another computer to your hard drive.
ENIAC -consisted of 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors, arranged in 40 panels in an 80-foot U-shape. It weighed about 30 tons, and took up a whole room
File name- this is the name of the actual file that we are viewing on our web browser screen. The file you are viewing right now to see this lesson is named "history.htm".
FTP- Stands for "File Transfer Protocol," one of the ways to send files from one computer to another on the Internet so that they can be viewed by others on the web.
HOME PAGE- The first page that is seen when you visit a URL or the first/main page of your web pages.
HTML- Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the basic "language" that web pages are written in.
HTML Editors You can learn HTML by using a basic word processing program such as Notepad (Windows) or SimpleText (MAC). Any basic editor will work, the simpler the better.
HYPERLINKS/LINKS- These are the HTML coded locations, usually set apart by a different text color and underlining, that lead you to other places on the web or to another spot within a particular page.
Local area network (LAN)- a system for linking private telecommunications equipment, as in a building or cluster of buildings
Network - Any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
Protocol- a designation that tells your computer and the remote computer what language to speak to each other in order to exchange information
Router - COMPUTING computer switching program: a computer switching program that transfers incoming messages to outgoing links via the most efficient route possible, for example, over the Internet
SERVER- The server is the computer on which your web pages will reside.
TAGS- These are the embedded words and/or symbols that enable us to turn ordinary text into HTML. and , for example,are the opening and closing tags that indicate a document is written in HTML.
UNIVAC- provided the main computing facility for Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland Ohio in the United States.
UPLOAD- To sent your files from your hard drive to the server or computer on which your web pages will reside.
URL- Stands for "Uniform Resource Locator." The "URL" is the "address" of a web page. For example, the "URL" or address of the Buffalo Bison HTML page is http://www.geocities.com/bisonhtml or http://www.geocities.com/bisonhtml and the URL for the Bison Band is http://www.geocities.com/buffaloband.
Wide area network (WAN)- a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area. Also called WAN