The Internet & The Web

F.T.P. (File Transfer Protocol):
A standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, like the internet.

Plug-Ins:
A set of software components that adds specific capabilities to a larger software application. They enable customizing the functionality of an application, commonly used in web browsers, scan for viruses and display new file types.

Filters:
1. A higher-order function that processes a data structure (typically a list) in some order to produce a new data structure containing exactly those elements of the original data structure for which a given predicate returns the boolean value true.
2. A computer program to process a data stream.


Internet Security Suite:
A branch of computer security  specifically related to the internet. It is used to establish rules and measure to use against attacks over the Internet.

Wiki:
A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.

Java Scripts:
An implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It is used to add functionality to a webpage.

Applets:
An applet is a small program that can be included in an HTML page (web page), much in the same way an image is included in a page. A small application that performs one specific task, sometimes running within the context of a larger program.

HTML:
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. A markup language is a set of markup tags, and HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages.
 

URL:
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. Addresses of webpages used on the World Wide Web such as http://www.blahblah.com/.