Online Health Care Resources - Glossary of Terms

Internet

A "network of networkd, allowing computers worldwide to communicate with each other.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Data transmitted across the Internet is broken into "packets" according to this recognized standrad.

ftp

File Transfer Protocol

Web browser

A piece of software that allows you to

html

Hypertext Markup Language

URL

Universal Resource Locator. The unique address of a Web page.

http

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Netscape/Mosaic/etc.

Name of specific Web browsers. Netscape is commercial, Mosaic is free.

Mailing List

Newsgroup

gopher

telnet