Basic WWW Terms 
browser - An Internet search tool, such as Mosaic or lynx; browsersare distinguished from other search tools (like Archie) in that browsersenable you to search through hypertext links.
lynx - A Web browser, text-based rather than graphical.

hypertext - A form of electronic documentation with built-inlinks to other documents, themselves frequently hypertext, and so on.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - Roughly, the address of somethingon the Internet, including information about how to go about accessingsomething on the Internet. Used by Web browser tools.

WWW (World Wide Web) - The overarching term for the sum of allthe hypertext documents that a linked together via a special protocol calledHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
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 HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) The protocol for movinghypertext files across the Internet. HTTP is the most important protocolused in the World Wide Web

HTML(HyperText Markup Language) -- The coding language used tocreate Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. HTML looks alot like old-fashionedtypesetting code, where you surround a block of textwith codes that indicate how it should  appear, additionally, in HTMLyou can specify that a block of text, or a word, is linked to another fileon the Internet. HTML files are meant to be viewed using a World Wide Web
 Program, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer.

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