Glossary for Computer Concepts: web-technologies

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Berners Lee system: Berners-Lee’s System (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   linked together documents to allow navigation from one document to related documents
bot: Bot (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   automated program
browser: Browser (Web Browser) (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   requests webpages from web servers, interprets the HTML code in the webpage that is delivered, and displays the content as defined by the HTML
cloud computing: Cloud Computing (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   delivers a variety of computing resources from the Internet as a service for free or for a fee, to relieve users from the burden of installing, maintaining, and securing those resources themselves
cloud models: Cloud Models (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   There are several cloud models that serve various environments, including private clouds, community clouds, public clouds, and hybrid clouds
cloud services: Cloud Services (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   include computing services provided over the Internet in three categories: infrastructure, platform, and application.
cookie: Cookie (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   small text file placed on a user’s computer by a web server in order to identify the user whenever he or she returns to visit a website
CSS: CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   allows easy application of visual styles for fonts, colors, layouts, and other page attributes to create visual themes for webpages and sites
education: Education, Online (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   refers to websites designed to educate or support education and training
electronic communication: Electronic Communication (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   Includes asynchronous such as email and text messaging as well as synchronous such video or phone
emoji: Emoji (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   pictures from punctuation, like (-;
financial services: Financial Services, Online (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   support money management, loans, investments, and transactions for individuals, businesses, and organizations
html: HTML (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   Basics of html to create a webpage
HTML: HTML: Hypertext Markup Language (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   the primary markup language used to specify the formatting of a webpage, it is NOT a programming language.
HTTP: HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   controls communication between web clients and servers
hyperlink: Hyperlink (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   an element in an online document—a word, phrase, or image—that, when clicked, opens a related online document
IANA: IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   responsible for managing URLs and IP addresses
internet communications: Internet Communications (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   include text-based communications, voice, video, and others such as forums
online information: Online Information (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   information of all kinds that is delivered over the Internet
plug in: Plug-In (Extension or Add-On) (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   works with a web browser to offer extended services such as audio players, video, animation, 3D graphics viewers, and interactive media
RSS: RSS: Really Simple Syndication (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   a web technology used to automatically deliver frequently updated web content
search engine: Search Engine (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   a software tool that enables users to find information on the web by specifying keywords
social media: Social Media (Social Networks) (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   websites that allow people to share information, ideas, photos, and other forms of media in virtual communities and to comment on items shared
stateless: Stateless (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   HTTP is classified as a stateless protocol: it does not retain information (a particular state) regarding a user between visits
tag: Tag (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   In a markup language describe the formatting of a page. An HTML tag is a specific command inside angle brackets < and />
TLD: TLD: Top-Level Domain (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   The final portion of the domain name—.com, .co, .edu, .biz, and so on
URL: URL: Uniform Resource Locator (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   acts as a webpage address, incorporating the domain name of the web server and the location of the webpage file on the server
web: Web: World Wide Web (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   an Internet service that provides convenient access to information and services through hyperlinks
web development software: Web Development Software (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   allows developers to create webpages more easily using a word-processing-style environment and automating complex coding activities
web programming: Web Programming (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   the development of software written to run either in a web browser or on a web server, using web-based input and output
web server: Web Server (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   software that fulfills webpage requests from web clients and to the computers that run such software
web technologies: Web Technologies (Lesson: Web Technologies)
   the hardware, software, and protocols that allow the web to exist
web technologies questions: Self Study Questions(Lesson: Web Technologies)
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