Browser: A Browser is the software that lets the user access web pages on the internet. Examples of browsers are Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol, a protocol computers use to transfer pretty much any type of file to one another.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language, a language that is used to create web pages. From Netscape, you can view the actual HTML file that is used to create the web page you see by choosing "View" and then "Source". For more information, see "A Beginner's Guide to HTML".
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol, a protocol web servers (such as www2.gvsu.edu)and browsers (such as Netscape) use to transfer web documents.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator, an addressing system that allows you to uniquely address a file on the internet. Assumes addresses are of the form protocol://server/path/filename. An example is http://www2.gvsu.edu/~stuindex/users.html.This indicates we are addressing a web document (http://) that is on the server called www2.gvsu.edu. The file on that server can be found down the path called ~stuindex (a weird UNIX way of naming a path, or series of folders), and the name of the file is users.html.
Web Server: A machine on the internet that is able to publish web documents. decision
