CIS 2010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Web Browser, Apple Inc., Web Banner

• School: GSU
• Department: Computer Information Systems
• Course: CIS 2010
• Professor: Kurt William Schmitz

Document Summary

Internet: a massive network that connects computers all over the world and allows them to communicate with one another, computers connected via the internet can send and receive information including text, graphics, voice, video, and software. World wide web (www: provides access to internet information through documents, including text, graphics, and audio and video files that use a special formatting language called hypertext. Hypertext markup language (html: publishes hypertext on the www, which allows users to move from one document to another simply by clicking a hot spot or link. Hypertext transport protocol (http: the internet protocol web browsers use to request and display web pages using universal resource locators (urls). Web browser: allows users to access the www, example: internet explorer, mozilla"s firefox, google chrome. Universal resource locator (url: the address of a file or resource on the web, ex: www.