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BLOG, Web Log. A blog (short for "web log") is a type of web page that serves as a publicly available personal journal or log for an individual. Blog software usually has archives of old blogs and is searchable. Browse. Browse is to follow links or shop around on a page or site, similar to window shopping. The opposite of browsing a page is searching. When you search a site, you find a search box, enter specific terms, and find all occurrences of the terms throughout the site. Browser. Browsers are software programs used to view WWW documents. They translate HTML-encoded files into the text, images, and sounds you see and hear on the Internet. Microsoft Internet Explorer (also called IE), Netscape, Opera, and Mosaic, are examples of browsers used to view content on the Internet. This software must be installed on your computer. Cache. Cache is the space where pages you visit are stored in memory your computer. When you use the GO or BACK buttons to revisit a document, the browser first checks to see if a page is in cache and will retrieve it from there faster than retrieving it again from the server. CGI, Common Gateway Interface. CGI is a scripting language and a common way web programs interact dynamically with users. Many search boxes and applications that result in a page with content tailored to the user's input use CGI to process the data once it's submitted and then deliver the response for HTML display. Cookie. A cookie is a tag sent from a server and saved to the browser on your computer. When your computer reconnects to the web server, the cookie is sent from your computer back to the server. This is how you receive personalized web pages. Domain, Top Level Domain (TLD). Naming scheme for the type and/or location of a web site. In the U.S., common domains are .edu (education), .gov (government agency), .net (network related), .com (commercial), .org (nonprofit or research organizations). Outside the U.S., domains indicate a country: .ca (Canada), .uk (United Kingdom), .au (Australia), .jp (Japan), .fr (France), etc. Domain Name, Domain Name Server, DNS Entry. A domain name is also known as a web site address. These refer to the beginning of a URL address, where the domain name of the host/server computer is listed. A domain name is translated in tables standardized across the Internet to a numeric IP address unique the host computer. These tables are maintained on computers called "Domain Name Servers." When a domain name lookup fails, a DNS error occurs. You can try the URL again, when the server is less busy, or once a server that was temporarily unavailable is again up and running. Download. To copy something from a remote source to a local one, as in saving something found on the Web (located on its server) to a diskette or to your local hard drive. Didn't find the term you were looking for? Search for almost any computer term in the PC Webopedia, or Wikipedia. |
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