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1. INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET

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BASIC TERMINOLOGY (1a)

What is the "Internet"? It is a collection of networks that links users throughout the world. It began with technology and equipment funded by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1970s. In common usage, "internet" is roughly synonymous with "World Wide Web," "Web," "WWW," "W3" and "Net."

What is HTML? HTML stands for "HyperText Markup Language." It is used for creating documents for the WWW.

What is a "markup language"? A "markup language" uses special characters to instruct a computer program how to handle and display the contents of a file. For example, <B> means "begin bold type" in HTML, and </B> means "end bold type."

What is "hypertext"? ... a method of organizing information that lets individual data elements point to one another. Using hypertext, you can be "hyper"; you can jump from here to there to elsewhere and beyond...

BROWSER Terminology (1b)

What is a browser? A "browser" is a program that "understands" HTML documents. A browser can "read" your HTML file, interpret the instructions that are specified by your HTML code, and display the results. Perhaps the biggest challenge in web design is dealing with the variety of browsers and computers.

What are the most popular browsers? MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER and NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR/COMMUNICATOR account for approximately 95% of browser use in Fall 2002. Both are free; both are available for both Macintosh and Windows.

What are some other browsers in use? America Online browsers, WebTV, Opera, Lynx. (Lynx is a text-only browser, against which web pages can be tested for basic functionality.)

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Printable version of Index Card 1b

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