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| HTTP Index | | |
| HTTP | HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the communications protocol which enables browsing the Web. | |
| HYPERTEXT | Is a system in which different types of documents such as text, images or sounds are linked and can be accessed using a "browser". | |
| WWW | It is a term which is (incorrectly) used when referring to "The Internet". It represents the part of Internet which uses (linking) HTML pages. | |
| HTML | (Hypertext Markup Language) - It is the code in which the World Wide Web documents are written, which uses "tags" to tell browsers which parts of a Home Page are icons, displayed as links or have hierarchical importance etc. | |
| IP ADDRESS | This is the address (numeric address) of a computer which is connected to the Internet; this is also called the Internet address. | |
| HOST | This represents a computer on a network that contains services available to other computers on the network. | |
| URL | (Uniform Resource Locator) - It is the address of a resource on the Internet. | |
| BROWSER | A browser is a computer program which stays on a computer enabling users to use the computer to view WWW documents and access the Internet. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari, Opera represent some browser examples. | |
| OS | This represents the actual software that manages a computer system. For example Windows XP is an OS as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. | |
| FTP | FTP is the abreviation for File Transfer Protocol. It is a network protocol which is a standard. FTP can be used to transfer files from one computer to another over a TCP enabled network. The FTP protocol is often used to upload web pages to a hosting server. It can be used to access online software files or to transfer files between an account and a desktop computer. | |
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W W W . W H A T I S H T T P . C O M - HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the communications protocol which enables browsing the Web. 
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