  Here are some definitions for you... Browser- These are what presents Web pages to us on the computer. They often guide us through the internet. In the simpest terms it is the icon on one's computer that brings up the internet connection and lets one go form there. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) URL - Once in an internet browser you need this address to get where you want to go. The different parts of the URL give the computer different instructions. It literally stands for Uniform Resource Locator. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) Domain Name - The domain name is one specific part of the URL that sends the computer to specific web pages. There are two parts to a domain name the IP address and the top level domain. The top level domain is the part after the second dot that tells the computer if the page is a commercial business (com), and educational institution (edu), and so on.
www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) IP Address - The IP address is what most computer users do not see it is the number version of the URL. This is the address where the computer takes you- like the URL it consists of a few different parts seperated by periods. Like phone numbers everyone (or every computer) must have a seperate IP address. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) HTML - HTML is one of the languages of computers, when this language is used someone can create pages on the internet.
HTML dictates what each page or document of the web looks like using this language. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) Snail Mail - What the world used prior to e-mail! Snail mail is when a letter is actually sent through the US postal service rather than over the web. Since the use of e-mail has become so prevalent in society some people found a reason to distinguish between the two. I still have faith, and use snail mail often. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) Emotion - Emoticons are the grouping of characters of the keyboard designed to be able to show what the author of an e-mail means by certain sentences.
It takes the guesswork out of what someone means by a phrase that might otherwise be construed in many ways. Emotions have become seemingly more and more prevelent with the use of instant messaging. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) Newbie - A newbie is someone who has little knowledge of the computer or internet. People who are just learning are often referred to as this. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) TCP/IP - Literlly TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol.
TCP goes a little further than IP becuase it connects two different computers and passes information back and forth between the two. TCPs keep all the information in the order that it was meant to be sent in. www.pcwebopedia.com (18.May.04) wireless - When there is a computer network that is set up and communicates to one another without the use of wires or other means that we can see the network is set up as a wireless one.
Instead of using what we are used to seeing these networks communicate through radio waves. www.comp.std.wirelss (18.May.04) Peer to Peer Networking - With this sort of network set up all of the computers involved have equal power. Each computer can give and receive the same information. www.freedictionary.org (18.May.04) IPO - IPO stands for Initial Public Offering which means that this is when a company first goes public in trying to sell it's own stock. www.freedictionary.org (18.May.04) 
