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| Browse | To navigate the World Wide Web. Synonyms: cruise, surf. | |
| Browser | A client program for viewing HTML documents sent by a server over an HTTP connection. | |
| Client | An application or computer that receives and interprets data sent by a matching server computer/application. | |
| Domain Name | The unique name that identifies each Internet site. | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol; the TCP/IP protocol for transferring files on the Internet. | |
| Gopher | A client/server application for indexing and retrieving information on the Internet. The predecessor to the World Wide Web. | |
| Hit | An instance of someone (or something, such as a Webcrawler robot indexing program) accessing a Web page. | |
| Hostname | The DNS name for a single computer on the Internet, e.g. www.yahoo.com. | |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language; the language used to create Web pages. | |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol; the client/server protocol for moving hypertext files on the Internet. | |
| Hypertext | Text containing links that, when chosen by a user, will "jump" to another block of text, either in the same document or in another. | |
| Internet | The worldwide network of computers connected by TCP/IP and other internetworking protocols. | |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider; an institution that provides access to the Internet. | |
| LAN | Local Area Network; a computer network limited in scope to a single group of locally interconnected computers. | |
| Link | A user-selectable hypertext or hypermedia jump point, that when selected will "jump" to another text or multimedia object. | |
| Multimedia | Generic term for integrated, interactive video, audio, text, graphics, database, and other content. | |
| Netscape | Shorthand for the Netscape Communications Corporation's Netscape Navigator WWW browser, generally acknowledged to be the most popular Web browser program today. | |
| Network | A collection of computers connected by LAN, WAN, or Internet. | |
| Page | A single HTML document on the Web. | |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol; one of the protocols that enable a user to create a TCP/IP dialup connection to the Internet via modem. | |
| RFC | Request For Comments; the process of writing a document proposing a new standard for the Internet and then asking for the Net community to comment on it. The standard method for establishing rules and methods on the Internet. | |
| Server | A computer/application that sends data over the network to a matching client computer/program that is capable of properly interpreting that data. | |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language; the precursor to and a superset of HTML. | |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol; an alternative to PPP. | |
| T1 | A leased-line Internet connection that operates at 1.5 megabits per second. | |
| T3 | A 45 megabit-per-second leased line Internet connection. | |
| Tag | An HTML markup element. | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol; the suite of protocols that provides the infrastructure for the Internet. | |
| Telnet | A remote logon program that is part of the TCP/IP protocols. | |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator; the standard World Wide Web address format, e.g. http://www.yahoo.com | |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language for creating 3D sites on the Web. | |
| WAN | Wide Area Network; an internetwork of LANs. The Internet is a huge WAN. | |
| WWW | World Wide Web; the portion of the Internet that consists of linked HTML pages. | |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get, a term used in desktop publishing programs. HTML is not WYSIWYG though many HTML editors create code behind the scenes so the user sees what the Web page will look like. |