Unit 1 - Vocabulary

1. Address Bar: normally located near the top of your web browser window; displays the Web address (or URL) of the page you are currently viewing and contains an edit field where you enter the Web address that you are trying to reach

2. Attachment: a file sent "attached" to an e‐mail message; may be a picture, text file, audio, video, or executable program. Attachments should be checked for viruses with virus detection software.

3. Back Button: sends your browser to the last page that you viewed.

4. Browser: a software program with a graphical user interface that is used to access the World Wide Web. Browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera, to name a few.

5. Domain: the part of an internet address naming convention that consists of a sequence of characters separated by dots.

The original six domain abbreviations (last three characters in URL or address) are:

.edu – educational institutions

.com – commercial businesses

.gov – U. S. government

.mil – U. S. military

.org – other organizations

.net – network/internet service providers ISP

6. Download: the process of transferring files from another computer to another via a modem or local network.

7. E‐mail (electronic mail): the process of sending messages via a computer network. Most e‐mail software programs use IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) to send and receive e‐mail from and to an e‐mail server.

8. Favorites or Bookmarks: a listing in your browser that displays websites that have been saved for future visits

9. Forward Button: available only after using the Back button; will send browser forward one page.

10. History: a record of Web pages that you have visited in the past. Most web browsers allow you to view and manage your history from within the browser itself.

11. Home Button: will send the browser directly to the designated homepage

12. Homepage: the web page that opens up when you start your browser, or the “opening” Web page of a Web site.

13. Hyperlink: hypertext which, when clicked, connects you to another web page. The web page can be on the same site or a different site.

14. Hypertext: text on an HTML document that has been organized to provide links between other elements of the same document or other documents on the Web. Selecting a hypertext link (usually by clicking the mouse pointer on the text itself) will display the linked information.

15. Internet: the vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 1960s and early 1970s—a worldwide network of computer networks.

16. IP address: a computer’s unique Internet address, which usually looks like this: 128.223.142.14. Most computers also have a “domain name” assigned to them, which represents cryptic IP addresses with easier‐to‐remember words.

17. Print Button: will let you print the Web page that you are currently viewing

18. Refresh/Reload Button: forces the browser to download the latest copy of the page or to restart the downloading process

19. Ribbon: the area at the top of an application window that houses all of the tools that can be used in that application

20. Search Box: located at the top of most browsers; allows you to search the internet by typing in keywords and pressing Enter

21. Search Engine: provides the ability for users to search the Web by typing in a search terms. Results can include pages, documents, or images.

22. Stop Button: will stop the browser during the process of downloading a page

23. Tab: an area on the ribbon that houses a related set of tools that can be used in a particular application

24. URL (Uniform Resource Locator): the address for a specific file (page or site) on the Web

25. Window: a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file

26. World Wide Web (WWW or the Web): the interactive portion of the Internet, an information protocol that is used to send and receive information. Information on the Web includes multimedia (movies, pictures, sounds, etc.), hypertext (links to other internet resources), or text (documents, files, etc.).