Vocabulary
Here are a few
vocabulary items to help you get through the Tech Tip this month.
They're helpful words to know for general Web use, as well.
- cgi program
- A special file that is written in a programming
language such as C++ or Perl. It's stored in a special directory and is
usually not something that you can download.
- download
- Take a
file from the host computer and put it
on your computer.
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language. These are
the special codes that you add to a
text file in order to make it look
good on a Web browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer.
- hypertext
- Text with graphics and possibly
sound, animation, and video.
- link
- A specially-marked word or
phrase (underlined and/or a different color, usually) that you can
click on to go to another place. Graphics can also be links. You clicked
on different
links to get here.
- navigate
- Move around on the
Web by clicking on specially-marked words, phrases, or graphics
(links).
- offline
- On the computer, but not connected to the
Internet.
- online
- Connected to the Internet, either through
the phone line (a dialup connection) or directly with cables.
- source file
- The file with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
codes in it that Netscape or another Web browser interprets to
display in a formatted way.
- Web browser
- A program that interprets HTML codes to display a
file in a specially-formatted way. Common Web
browsers include the graphical Netscape, Mosaic, and Internet
Explorer
and the plain text Lynx.
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May Technology Tip of the Month
Last updated 22 Jan 1997
by D. Healey, dhealey AT uoregon DOT edu