ACCESS COUNTER: A small program inserted in a Web page that tracts the page's hit count (how many times it's been accessed).
SPEAK LIKE A GEEK ~ Pt. I ~ Introductory TermsBANDWIDTH: A measure of how much stuff can be stuffed through a transmission medium such as phone, network cable, or satellite transmission. There's only so muc bandwidth to go around at any given time. Bandwidth is measured in baud or bits per second.
BAUD: A measure of how much bandwidth a transmission medium has ~ bits per second.
BIT: (binary digit). Computers do all their work by maniupulating a series of high (digit 1) and low (digit 0) electrical currents or BITS (bps= bits per second).
BODY: The section of the Web page where you enter your text.
BOOKMARKS: A list of your favourite Web pages stored in a browser (Netscape or Explorer)
BROWSER: The software you use to display and intereact with a Web page.
BYTE: Eight bits or a single character (letter, number, punctuation, etc.).
CRACKER: A programmer who breaks into computer systems either to trash them or just for the sheer thrill of doing it.
CYBERSPACE: That Internet world beyond your own computer where you interact with information or people on other computer systems.
CYBERSURFER: A person who surfs or navigates through cyberspace.
DIRT ROAD: A frustratingly slow connection to a Web site.DOMAIN NAME: The part of your e-mail address to the right of the @ sign or to right of WWW - often a dot com.
EMOTICON or SMILEY: A combination of symbols designed to indicate the true intent or emotional state of the author, i.e. :-)
FAQ: Frequently Asked Question - pronounced "fack"
FLOODED: A page rendered unreadable because of poorly chosen background image.
FORM: A Web document used for gathering information from the reader.
FRAMES: Rectangular Web page areas that contain separate chunks of text, graphics, and HTML. Frames can divide a single Web page into two or more separate pages.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol. The usual method for between computers or uploading to servers on the Internet.
GEEK or NERD: A person who knows a lot about computers and very little about anything else.
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format. One of the most commonly used graphics formats on the Web.
HACKER: Someone who enjoys exploring the nuts and bolts - both hardware and software - of computer systems.
HEAD: The intro of a Web page in HTML code.
HIT COUNT: The number of hits or times that a page is visited.
HOME PAGE: The first Web document displayed when you follow a link to a Web server.
HORIZONTAL RULE or LINE: A straight line that runs across a Web page to separate sections of a page.
HOST or WEB SERVER: A computer that that stores your Web pages and hands them out to anyone with a browser that comes calling.
HOSTING PROVIDER: A company that provides you with storage space (usually for a fee) for your Web pages.
HOT LIST: A collection of links to cool or interesting sites that you check out regularly.
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Langage. The collection of tags used to specify how you want your Web page to appear.
HTML EDITOR: A program that makes it easier to make a Web page by using menu commands and toolbar buttons to insert tags.
IMAGE MAP: A clickable image in your webpage that takes you to different links, dependinug on which part of the image you click.
INTERNET: A worldwide collection of interconnected networks and computers.
JAVA: A programming language designed to create software that runs inside a Webpage.
JPG or JPEG: A common graphics format used in Web pages developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
JPIG: A Web page that takes forever to load because it's either jammed to the hilt with graphics.
LINK or HYPERTEXT LINK: A word or phrase that, when selected, sends the reader to a different page or to an anchor (another point on the same Web page).
NET: A short term used for the Internet.
NETIQUETTE: An informal set of rules designed to smooth Internet interactions.
NETWORK: A collection of two or more computers connected via cables so they can share resources. The Internet is a worldwide collection of networks. (A Notwork is a downed network.)
NEWBIE: A person who is new to the Internet and has little expertise or netiquette.
ONE-LINK WONDER: A Web page that contains only a single useful link.
PLUG-IN: A proram that attaches itself to a Web browser and increases the power and functions of the browser.
PUBLISH: To make a Web page available to the World Wide Web community at large.
SERVER: A computer that sends out stuff.
SURF: To leap furiously from one Web page to another ~ to travel through Cyberspace.
TAGS: The HTML commands, in the form of letter combinations or words surrounded by angle brackets <>. They tell a browser how to display a Web page.
TITLE: A short description of a Web page that appears at the top of the screen.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator. A Web addressing scheme that spells out the exact location of a Net resource:
https://www.angelfire.com/trek/puknet/glossary.htmlVAPOR LINK: A link that points to a nonexistent Web page.
WEB: World Wide Web
WORLD WIDE WEB: WWW ~ A system of documents containing text, graphics, multimedia goodies and links to other Web documents..
