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29 Cards in this Set
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ARPANET
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The original name of the Internet
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Client
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A computer or other device that requests services on the network
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Client-server network
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A common network structure where the network is made up of several clients requesting services from one or more server.
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Host
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A point at which a user accesses a computer network
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Hyperlinks
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Elements in a hypertext document that allow you to jump from one location in the document to another.
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Hypertext
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A method of organizing information that gives the reader control over the order in which the information is read.
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LAN
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Local Area Network - a network made up of computers that are located physically close to one another.
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Network
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A structure linking computers together for the purposes of sharing resources such as files and printers.
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Server
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A computer that makes resources available to the network.
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Web browser
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Client software that retrieves a Web page and displays it.
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Web pages
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Hypertext documents within a Web site.
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Web server
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A computer that stores a Web page and which makes it available to other computers on a network or the Internet.
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Web site
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A collection of linked hypertext documents.
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WAN
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Wide Area Network - a network made up of computers that are separated by physical distance.
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Unordered list
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A list of items that need not appear in any order.
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Two-sided tag
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A tag that contains some document content, enclosed between opening and closing tags.
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Styles
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Format descriptions that tell browsers how to render an element in a document.
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Pixel
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A dot on a computer screen that measures 1/72 of an inch.
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Ordered list
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A list of items that must appear in a sequential order.
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Opening tag
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The tag that precedes (goes before) the content of a two-sided tag.
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Nesting
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The technique of placing one element inside another element.
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language - the markup language used to create and format Web pages.
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Head element
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An element that contains information about the document.
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Body element
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An element that contains all the content that is displayed on the Web page.
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Element
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A distinct object in an HTML document, such as a paragraph or a heading.
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Closing tag
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The tag that follows the content of a two-sided tag.
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Deprecated
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Older features of HTML that are being phased out by the W3C.
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W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium - a group of developers, programmers and authors who set standard for browsers to follow.
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Attributes
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Parts of tags that control the behavior and appearance of elements on a page.
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