Anchor
A synonym for hyperlink

.AIFF
A sound file format

.AU
A sound file format

Browser
A World Wide Web client. An information retrieval tool

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions and answers

FTP
File Transfer Protocol, a method of transferring files to and from remote computers

GIF
Graphics Interchange Format, an image file format

History
A list of Document Titles and URLs the Browser keeps in memory that represents the visited URLs during a session

Home Page
A top level document of a organization or a document that a user frequently visits. You can define any Web page as the home page. This page is usually displayed when you start the browser.

HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The rules that govern the way we create documents so that can be read by a browser. These documents are characterized by the .html or .htm file extension . For example: name.html or name.htm

HTTP
HyperText Transport Protocol, the protocol used by the WWW servers

Hyperlink
A link in a given document to information within another document. These links are usually represented by highlighted words or images. The user also has the option to underline these hyperlinks.

Hypermedia
Richly formatted documents containing a variety of information types, such as textual, image, movie, and audio. These information types are easily found through hyperlinks.

Inline image
A graphic image that is displayed with an html document

Internet
An international computer network of networks that connect government, academic and business institutions

ISP
Internet Service Provider. The ISP typically stores your Web site on their servers and you pay a montly "rental" fee. ISPs can also serve as "portals" to the Web and provide Web Page Development services. The largest ISP in the world is AOL. You can find a handy list of ISPs at The List.com

JPEG
Joint Photographic Expert Group, a method of storing an image in digital format

MacTCP
The necessary network software from Apple Computer that allows Macintoshes to interact with the other computers via TCP/IP

MIME
Multiple Internet Mail Extensions, a method of identifying files such that the first packet of information received by a client, contains information about the type of file the server has sent. For example text, audio, movie, postscript, word documents

MPEG
Moving Pictures Experts Group, a method of storing movie files in digital format

PostScript
A page description language developed by Adobe Systems

Protocol
A planned method of exchanging data over the Internet

QuickTime
A method of storing movie and audio files in a digital format. Developed by Apple Computer

Server
A computer that serves information and software to the Internet community

SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language, is an International standard, a encoding scheme for creating textual information. HTML is a subset of SGML

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of rules that establish the method with which data is transmitted over the Internet between two computers

TIFF
Tag Image File Format, a file format used storing image files

URL
Uniform Resource Locator, the address to information (http://www.iconlogic.com/)