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| GUI |
Graphical User
Interface: A man-machine interface displayed on a computer
screen or other display device, that allows a human operator to
control and monitor a process or application |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission
Control Protocol / Internet Protocol: A suite of transport and
application protocols that can be used to transfer information
across a network |
| HTML |
HyperText
Markup Language: A page formatting language in which web pages
are written by the use of standardized "tags". |
| HTTP |
HyperText
Transfer Protocol: a TCP/IP protocol used to transfer HTML
documents on an internet. HTTP is client driven; that is, data is
sent in response to a browser's request. |
| internet |
A collection of
networks connected with routers that transfer data using TCP/IP |
| Web Server |
A computer system
that is able to provide, in response to a properly formatted
request reuest over a TCP/IP network, HTML pages using HTTP across
an internet. |
| Web Browser |
An application
used to retrieve and display HTML documents from across an
internet. The most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol: A TCP/IP protocol used to SEND electronic mail
across computers. |
| POP |
Post Office
Protocol: A TCP/IP protocol used to RECEIVE email from an
email server. The latest version is POP3. |
| XML |
A language based
upon HTML that allows the creation of custom HTML tags |