The Internet


 

Do you know these words?

World Wide Web
browsers
plug-in
home page
hot spot
Web server
host
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Internet Protocol address (IP)
domain name
path
directory/folder
file
file extension
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Telnet
Gopher
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
chat room
newsgroup

This chapter will cover these important concepts. If you are unfamiliar with most of these terms, click on the lesson button to learn more about them. You can then take a quiz before moving ahead to the next lesson.

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