- HTML: hypertext markup language: a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
- URL: the address of a web page on the world wide web
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language
- ARPANet: (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network),the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet.
- Server: a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- Virus: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer.
- Bandwidth: a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
- Blog: is a type of website or part of a website. (web log)
- ISP: an internet service provider
- Browser: a program used to view HTML documents
- Domain Name: strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet
- Ethernet: a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second
- FTP: use the file transfer protocol to transfer data from one computer to another
- GIF: The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
- Wiki: a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language
- Hypertext: text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access
- JavaScript: an object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within both the client application and other applications
- JPEG: a commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images
- LAN:local area network: a local computer network for communication between computers; especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices
- Network: a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits
- PDF: Portable Document Format is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks
- TCP/IP: transmission control protocol: a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another
- PNG: Portable Network Graphics is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression
