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Glossary of Internet Terms and Phrases
High-Level Language (HLL)
- A
programming language which provides some level of abstraction above
assembly language. These normally use statements consisting of English-like
keywords such as "FOR", "PRINT" or "GOTO", where each statement corresponds
to several machine language instructions. It is much easier to program in a
high-level language than in assembly language though the efficiency of
execution depends on how good the compiler or interpreter is at optimising
the program.
Source: Dictionary.com
Hits
- The number of times a program or item of
data has been accessed or matches some condition. For example, when you
download a page from the Web, the page itself and all graphic elements
that it contains each count as one hit to that
Web site. If a search yields 100 items that match the searching
criteria, those 100 items could be called 100 hits.
Source: TechWeb.com
Home Page
- The opening or main page of a
website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information
about the site or its owner.
Source: Dictionary.com
Host
- A computer containing
data or
programs that another computer can access by means of a
network or
modem.
Source: Dictionary.com
Hot Link
- A connection between two files that automatically updates one whenever
the other is updated.
Source: Dictionary.com
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the
World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format based upon
SGML, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from
simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated
WYSIWYG
authoring tools. HTML uses tags such as < h1 > and < /h1 > to structure
text into headings, paragraphs, lists,
hypertext links etc.
Home:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/.
HTTP Protocol
- A
protocol used to request and transmit files, especially
webpages and webpage components, over the
Internet or other computer
network.
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests
and information between
servers and
browsers.
Source: Dictionary.com
HTTP Server
- A
web server process running at a
web site which sends out web pages in response to HTTP requests from
remote
browsers.
If one site runs more than one server they must use different port numbers.
Alternatively, several hostnames may be mapped to the same computer in which
case they are known as "virtual servers".
Apache and
NCSA
HTTPd are two popular web servers. There are many others including some
for practically every
platform. Servers differ mostly in the "server-side" features they offer
such as
server-side include, and in their authentication and access control
mechanisms. All decent servers support
CGI
and most have some binary API as well.
Source: Dictionary.com
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HTTPd
- Hypertext transfer protocol daemon. An HTTP/1.0-compatible server,
written by Rob McCool of
NCSA, for making
hypertext and other documents available to
World Wide Web
browsers.
HTTPd is designed to be small and fast and to work with most HTTP/0.9 and
HTTP/1.0 browsers. You can customise your server to execute searches and
handle HTML forms. It also supports
server side include files, allowing you to include the output of
commands or other files in
HTML documents.
Source: Dictionary.com
Hypermedia
- A computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to
gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs,
and computer graphics related to a particular subject.
Source: Dictionary.com
Hypertext
- A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents
(or "nodes") containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of
an interactive
browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to
another.
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