1.3.2. - WWW Vocabulary

Anchor: An anchor is a piece of text which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link.
External Image: Graphical Image viewed by the use of graphic viewing software that is launched as a result of a user activated link on either a piece of selected text or an inlined smaller version of the image.
Highlighting Tag: HTML tag that allows sections of text to be formatted in a particular way, to provide emphasis, etc.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The WWW system uses marked up text to represent a hypertext document for transmission over the network. The hypertext markup language is an SGML format. HTML is a collection of styles used to define the various components of a World Wide Web document.
HTML Tag: HTML markup tags to tell the World Wide Web browser how to display the text.
Hypertext Link: A relationship between two anchors, stored in the same or different HTML files.
Inline Image: Graphical Image displayed alongside with text inside a WWW document.
Link: See Hypertext Link.
mosaic: A mouse-driven WWW browser developed by the NCSA.
NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications. A federally-funded organization whose mission is to develop and research high-technology resources for the scientific community.
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language. This is perhaps best be thought of as a programming language for style sheets.
URL: A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) refers to the format used by WWW
Web: A set of WWW documents interconnected by links. Often used to designate the set of all WWW documents accessible on the Internet.
WWW: The official description describes the World-Wide Web as a "wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents". What the World-Wide Web (WWW, W3) project has done is provide users on computer networks with a consistent means to access a variety of media in a simplified fashion. Using browsing software such as Mosaic to interface the Web, the Web project has changed the way people view and create information - it has created the first true global hypermedia network.
WWW browser: Programs to access and navigate the web directly from your computer.

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