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- short for Wireless Application Protocol. WAP is a
technology which allows you to access basic information on the internet
from your mobile phone. This includes e-mail and information such as
sport, traffic and news.
- a piece of software that allows you to design a web page
without knowing HTML, the code which makes up web pages. Web editors are
as easy to use as word processors but rather than making documents, you
use them to make web pages.
- a powerful computer permanently connected to the internet
which "serves" web pages and other internet files to users.
- a general term used to describe data travelling around
the internet. The internet can sometimes be very slow because of the
amount of traffic.
- an inexpensive, simple video camera that can sit on top of
your computer monitor or be placed somewhere else such as the top of a building. It's designed to send live and recorded video as
well as still pictures over the net to one or more users.
- e-mail you access through a web page using your browser
rather than using an e-mail program. This means you can send, view and
organise e-mails on any computer with an internet connection. Hotmail is
a well known example of a webmail service.
- the person in charge of a website.
- the space on a server that you get given by your ISP to
put a website on. Most Internet Service Providers now allocate free
webspace for their customers.
- is a program that can reproduce itself over a computer
network. It usually attaches itself to another program and then proceeds
to cause malicious damage to your computer such as shutting it
down.
- stands for "What you see is what you get" and refers to
one of two types of programs called web editors, which help you build
web pages. With WYSIWYG you can place images and type text straight onto
the page rather than having to insert HTML code.
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