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Applet: Java programs that operate within web pages.
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
.bas: File format for a Visual Basic source file, in text format.
Browser: A software application employed to read web pages, like Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and NCSA Mosaic.
CGI: Common Gateway Interface. A programming tool that gives Web users power to interact with a Web server. CGI can be used to create automated pages, process information based on forms, control access to a site, and other useful tasks.
E-Mail: Electronic Mail. A messaging service allowing personalized addressing and other options contained within your Internet service account.
.exe: File format for a Windows executable program.
Form: An interactive HTML element that allows users to fill in information and submit it for processing. Forms can be used to sell products and services over the World Wide Web, as well as gather marketing and demographic data.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language. The mechanism used to create Web pages; Web browsers display these pages according to a browser-defined rendering scheme.
Hypertext: Method of interlinking documents with clickable text (usually underlined and color-coded) so that users can go from one page to another.
.hqx: File format for a compressed Macintosh archive file.
Imagemap: An interactive graphic that allows viewers to click on various regions and request a particular Web pages.
Internet: The cooperatively run, globally distributed collection of computer networks that exchange information via the TCP/IP protocol. The World Wide Web is a subcategory of the Internet that supports multimedia.
Internet Explorer: A web browser created by the Microsoft Corporation.
ISP: Internet Service Provider. Companies that offer internet access, web page hosting, and E-mail accounts.
Intranet: An internal web site network using web pages and browsers for the display and transfer of information.
Java: Object-oriented programming language created by Sun Microsystems that allows browsers to run Java programs (Applets) on a web page.
JavaScript: A simplified form of Sun Microsystems' Java which is often written directly into the HTML code of a web page.
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. MIME types identify different data types over the internet like text, sound, graphics, video.
Netscape Navigator: A web browser created by Netscape Communications Inc. Currently the most popular web browser.
Perl: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.
Plug-In: A software application to enhance web browser capabilities by allowing third party developer functions on a web page.
.ps: File format for a PostScript file.
.ps.Z: File format for a compressed PostScript file, for UNIX.
QuickTime: A digital video and sound format developed by Apple Computer that allows video clips to be displayed on the World Wide Web.
sea.hqx: File format for a self-extracting compressed Macintosh archive.
Shockwave: A multimedia technology that permits animations developed in Macromedia Director to be played over the web. To view Shockwave-enhanced pages, the viewer's browser requires a free plug-in.
.tar: File format for a UNIX archive file.
.tar.Z: File format for a compressed UNIX archive file.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator. The scheme for addressing on the Web.
VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language. A mechanism of viewing and creating 3D scenes or objects on a web browser.
WWW: World Wide Web or just simply Web. A global subset of the Internet containing a network of computers able to transfer text and multimedia in web pages viewed in browsers.
.zip: File format for a compressed Windows archive.