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BACK BUTTON
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A button on the toolbar which allows you to revisit
locations
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BOOKMARKS
MENU
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An item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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BROWSER
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A
software program for getting information from the World Wide Web.
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CHAT
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To
communicate with a person, a group, or a site on the Internet in real
time by typing on your keyboard. The words you type appear on the screen(s)
of all the other participants in the "chat" and their typing appears on
your screen
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CLICK
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To press and immediately release the mouse button. To
"click on" something is to position the pointer directly over it and
then click
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CLIENT
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A
program that accessing and displaying information supplied by another
program which usually runs on another computer on the internet. Netscape
is a client program for accessing and displaying WWW pages
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DESTINATIONS
BUTTON
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A button on the directory bar
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DIRECTORY
BAR
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A row of buttons near the top of your document window
which you can use to discover new and cool Web pages, search for certain
topics, concepts and people, and download the latest software
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DIRECTORY
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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DOWNLOAD
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To
copy a file from another computer to your computer. For instance, you
might download the latest version of the Netscape browser
from the Web
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DRAG
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To click down on something and then move the pointer
while holding down the mouse button
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EDIT
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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ELECTRONIC
MAIL
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A simple system designed to allow the sending and
receiving of messages across a network
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E-MAIL
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Short
for Electronic Mail
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FAX
MODEM
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A type of modem that can send (and in most cases,
receive) faxes in addition to transferring data files. Fax modems can't
send printed documents unless they are first scanned and saved on your
computer as disk files
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FILE
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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FIND
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to search
for specific text on the current page
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FORWARD
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to revisit
locations
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FTP
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A
means of transferring files from one computer to another. FTP stands for
File Transfer Protocol
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GO
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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GOPHER
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A
method for organizing information on the Internet using a system of
menus. Items in the menus can be links to other documents, searches, or
links to other information services
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HARDWARE
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The
parts of your computer system that you can bump into -- physical
components such as hard disks, printers, modems, scanners, cards,
keyboards, mice, and the Mac or PC itself
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HOME
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which returns you to the
home page
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HOME
PAGE
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A Web
page that you have designated as your home base. It is usually a a
page about you or your organization. If you do not tell Netscape
otherwise, it will assume that your home page is the Netscape home page
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HOT
SPOT
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Another
name for link
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HTTP
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This
is a set of rules exchanging WWW documents between computers that hold
the pages and computers that would like to see the pages. HTTP stands
for HyperText Transfer Protocol and is the basic protocol for the World
Wide Web
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HYPERTEXT
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A
hypertext document is one that includes links (connections) to other
documents. In concept this is similar to including footnotes in a
printed document. However, in a hypertext document you can switch to the
connected item by clicking on a "hot spot,"
usually indicated by a different color from the surrounding text. In the
World Wide Web links can lead to other documents on the same data
server, or might take you to other servers
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IMAGES
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to load
images
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INTERNET
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The
Internet is a super-network. It connects many smaller networks together
and allows all the computers to exchange information with each other. To
accomplish this all the computers on the Internet have to use a common
set of rules for communication. Those rules are called protocols, and
the Internet uses a set of protocols called TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol). Many people equate the World Wide Web with
the Internet. In fact, the Internet is like the highway, and the World
Wide Web is like a truck that uses that highway to get from place to
place
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INTERNET
SERVICE PROVIDER
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A
commercial service that sells access to the Internet to individuals.
Usually you connect to your Internet service provider through a modem.
Some providers only offer a basic connection to the Internet. Others
sell a variety of "value added" services such as discussion
forums, tech support, software libraries, news, weather reports, stock
prices, plane reservations, even electronic shopping malls. Popular
service providers include America Online, CompuServe, and Netcom
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ISP
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Short
for Internet Service Provider
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LINK
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A
word, picture, or other area of a Web page that users can click on to
move to another spot in the document or to another document. Words and
phrases that are links may be underlined and usually appear in a
contrasting color text. The text and underline color may change after
you click on the link so you can tell if you've already followed the
link. Pictures that are links sometimes have a blue border around them
which also may change colors after you click on them
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LOCATION
BOX
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A
box located near the top of the document window. Click in the white box
to enter the Internet address (URL) of a web page you
wish to visit
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NAVIGATION
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A
slang term Netscape likes to use for browsing
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NET
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In
general "Net" is a slang abbreviation for "The
Internet." However, there are some private networks (members-only
parts of Compuserve or America On Line, for example) that are not part
of the Internet. Someone might say that they have information available
"on the Net" even though it is not accessible through the
Internet
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NET
SEARCH BUTTON
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A
button on the directory bar
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NETWORK
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In
general, a group of computers set up to communicate with one another.
Your network can be a small system that's physically connected by cables
or you can connect separate networks together to form larger networks.
The Internet, for example, is made up of thousands of individual
networks
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NEWSGROUPS
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Readers
post messages, or articles, to newsgroups for other people to read. They
can also reply to articles that they read on a newsgroup. It's one way
for people like yourself to communicate with millions of people around
the world
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OPEN
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to open a
new location
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OPTIONS
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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PEOPLE
BUTTON
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A
button on the directory bar
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POINTER
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The
little icon that moves on the screen when you move the mouse. Its most
common shapes are the arrow and the I-beam
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PRINT
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to print
the current Web page
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PROTOCOL
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A
set of standardized rules for exchanging information among computers.
Different protocols are used for different kinds of communication. For
example, the HyperText Transfer Protocol specifies the rules for
communication between World Wide Web servers and browsers. File Transfer
Protocol sets the rules for copying files from one computer to another
across a network
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PULL-DOWN
MENU BAR
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A
bar at the top of the document window which allows you to open, print,
and save pages, set preferences, search for specific words or phrases,
and much more
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RELOAD
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to reload
the current page
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SCROLL
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To
move through the contents of an electronic document in order to see
things not currently displayed. It is normally done by using a scroll
bar
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SCROLL
BAR
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The
rectangular strip that appears on the right and/or bottom edges of a Web
page when there's more information than is currently displayed. You can
"click" on its gray area and/or use the scroll arrows and
scroll box to move the Web page's contents
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SEARCH
ENGINE
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A
search engine allows you to find World Wide Web pages that contain
specific words or phrases. Some popular search engines include
http://www.google.com.au.au , http://www.altavista.com and http://www.excite.com
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SERVER
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A
computer program that provides information or services (like e-mail or
WWW documents) to programs like Netscape. Likewise, Netscape is a client
program asking servers for these services
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SNAIL
MAIL
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A
slang term for the U.S. Postal Service. Nicknamed snail mail because the
delivery time of a posted letter is slow when compared to the fast
delivery of e-mail
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SNEAKERNET
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A
file-sharing strategy that uses hand-carried diskettes. Transfer speed
depends on the efficiency of your footwear
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SOFTWARE
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A
file or files containing instructions that tell the computer what to do
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SOFTWARE
BUTTON
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A
button on the directory bar
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STOP
BUTTON
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A
button on the toolbar which allows you to stop a
download process
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SURFING
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Slang
for using a browser to move through the World Wide Web
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TCP/IP
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The
rules used by computers to communicate via the Internet. TCP/IP stands
for transmission control protocol/Internet protocol
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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The
transfer of information between computers over telephone lines. Just
plug in a modem, fire up some communications software, and you can make
contact with the office computer or the Internet
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TITLE
BAR
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The
top portion of the browser's window that has in it the title of the
current Web page being displayed
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TOOLBAR
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A
row of buttons at the top of your browser's window which you can use to
revisit pages, load images, open locations, print pages, find text, or
stop transfers in progress
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URL
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A
URL is the scheme for creating addresses for World Wide Web pages. A URL
uniquely identifies a Web page. URLs have three parts: a protocol tag, a
server name, and a directory path. Consider the URL http://wings.ucdavis.edu/SPIT/index.html.
"http://" tells your browser that this is a hypertext server.
"wings.ucdavis.edu" is the Internet's name for the server. "/SPIT/index.html"
is the location of the file on the server
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VIEW
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down Menu Bar
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WEB
PAGE
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A
document on the World Wide Web. It is written in hypertext so it can
contain text, pictures, movies, sounds, or links to other Web pages
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WEB
SITE
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A
colection of Web pages on the World Wide Web having to do with a
particular topic or organization. K8AIT, for example, is a Web site
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WHAT'S
COOL BUTTON
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A
button on the directory bar
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WHAT'S
NEW BUTTON
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A
button on the directory bar
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WINDOW
MENU
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An
item on the Pull-Down
Menu Bar
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WORLD
WIDE WEB
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An
interconnected set of hypertext documents located throughout the
Internet. The documents are kept on computers called servers, which can
send the documents to your computer. As of late 1996 the World Wide Web
contains over 30,000,000 documents. It is also refered to as the WWW and
sometimes just as "The Web"
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WWW
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The World Wide Web
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WYSIWYG
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Short for What You See Is What You Get -- that is,
the image you see on screen matches what will print on paper. Pronounced
"wizzy-wig."
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