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| a collection of interconnected networks, all freely exchanging information |
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| ancestor of internet: a project started by the US DoD in 1969 as both an experiment in reliable networking and a menas to link DoD and military research contractors |
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| A communication standard that enables traffic to be routed from one network to another as needed |
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| Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) |
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| The widely used Transport-layer protocol that most Internet applications use with IP |
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| one of the Internet's high-speed, long-distance communications links |
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| Uniform Resource Locator (URL) |
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| an assigned address on the Internet for each computer |
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| Internet Service Provider (ISP) |
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| Any company that provides Internet access to people or organizations |
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| a collection of tens of millions of server computers that work together as one in an Internet service using hyperlink technology to provide information to billions of users |
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| Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) |
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| the standard page description language for Web pages |
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| Extensible Markup Language (XML) |
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| The markup language for Web documents containing structured information, including words, pictures, and other elements |
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| Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) |
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| a file or portion of an HTML file that defines the visual appearance of content in a Web page. |
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| rich Internet application |
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| software that has the functionality and complexity of traditional application software, but does not require local installation and runs in a Web browser |
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| An object-oriented programming language from Sun Microsystems based on C++ that allows small programs (applets) to be embedded within an HTML document |
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| standards and tools that streamline and simplify communication among Web sites for business and personal purposes |
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| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) |
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| a protocol that supports file transfers between a host and a remote computer (not secure) |
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| Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) |
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| a secure version of FTP for more secure file transfers |
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| a method for transferring multimedia files over the Internet so that the data stream of voice and pictures plays more or less continuously without a break, or very few of them; enables users to browse large files in real time |
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| an internal corporate network built using Internet and World Wide Web standards and technologies; used by employees to gain access to corporate information |
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| a network based on Web technologies that links selected resources of a company's intranet with its customers, suppliers, or other business partners |
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| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
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| a secure connection between two points on the Internet |
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| the process by which VPNs transfer information by encapsulating traffic in IP packets over the Internet |
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