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Meaning of some Internet
Words
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The code that is used to
define a web page. Don't ask me who's idea this term was.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets. The expanded term is
probably worse than the abbreviation. It refers to the
ability to assign styles to elements on a web page (HTML
document). Examples include position,
size, color, etc.
DHTML
Dynamic HTML. Incorporates the ability to change
the CSS values in a HTML document after it has been
loaded. The results are Animated and Interactive
web pages.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get. A computer program
that displays a reasonably good example of the finished
result as it is being constructed.
GUI
Graphical User Interface. A program that uses a
visual interface instead of a command line
interface. DOS uses commands, Windows uses a GUI.
Drag and Drop
A GUI that allows you to use your mouse to drag elements
from one location to another.
IMS
Interactive Multimedia System. I told you we are
quite capable of creating our own anachronisms.
Anachronisms
Big words made up by VIP's (Very Important People) and
LITOM's (Legends In Their Own Mind).
ISP
Internet Service Provider. A company that provides
internet services such as web page hosting.
Dialup Service Provider.
An ISP that provides telephone connection services so
that you can connect to the Internet with your modem.
Access Service Provider.
An ISP that provides any kind of access to the Internet
such as Cable modem.
Modem
MOdulator, DEModulator. A device connected to your
computer that goes Brrrr... Beee. Baaa. whenever you try
to use it. If you have not figured out the purpose
of this one yet you are probably not reading this.
Form
HTML code to collect information from a visitor.
Perl
Practical Extraction and Report Language. The most
common scripting language for processing Form data.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface. A protocol for gathering
data from a Form and sending it to a program or Script
such as Perl. Often used to indicate the entire
method for processing a Form but in fact it is only a
transfer interface.
WWW
World Wide Web. (as if you did not know). Is a
method for connecting many of the resources available
over the Internet using HTML. Often incorrectly
used as a synonym for the Internet.
Internet
Is the physical world wide interconnection between
computers and their resources using TCP/IP.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Is
a communication protocol between computers that wish to
"talk" over a physical connection. It defines
the rules on how they communicate. TCP/IP is the
method by which all computers talk over the Internet but
it works equally as well on a LAN.
LAN
Local Area Network. A kind of mini Internet between
locally connected computers, often in a business.
Gets into Intranets, Firewalls, etc., which are topics
for another day.
IP
Internet Protocol. The protocol that sends packets of
data over the Internet.
IP Address
Internet Protocol Address. Defines were an IP
packet is going. Often to somebody's computer over the
Internet. Your domain has an IP address.
Domain
An Internet Web Site identified with an IP address.
Domain Name
The name of a Web Site that is mapped to an IP address
using a URL.
URL
Universal Resource Locator. Is the address of any
resource on the World Wide Web. It often refers to
a Web Page but it can include almost any file that can be
found on a server connected to the WWW (see above).
FTP
File Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to
transfer files from one computer to another over the
Internet. It is what you use to upload your files
to your web server.
Spam
A luncheon meat made famous by Monty Python and now
freely distributed over the Internet using TCP/IP on the
WWW to your email box as soon as the distributor finds
your Domain IP mail box host address.
Do you think that's it? No way. Here is a
brief list of web sites that are dedicated to explaining
these and many other arcane terms. There are
probably more.
More Internet Terms can be found
at these links:
Internet
Dictionary of Terms and Abbreviations
Glossary
of Internet Terms
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