Switch, A device that channels incoming data from any of multiple input ports to the specific output port that will take it toward its intended destination., Router, A device that forwards data packets across multiple networks;, MODEM, Converts the digital signals of a computer to analog signals that can be transmitted over phone equipment and then back to digital so the signals can be received by another computer, Network interface card/network adapter, Provides the computer with a dedicated, full-time connection to a network;, World Wide Web (WWW), An information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another., Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), The major markup language used to display Web pages on the Internet., Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), The set of rules for transferring files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web., Hyperlinks, A link from a hypertext document to another location, activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image., Web Server, A program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Web pages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers' HTTP clients., Web Page, A hypertext document connected to the World Wide Web., File Transfer Protocol (FTP), A standard Internet procedure for transmitting files between computers on the Internet over TCP/IP connections, Web Browser, A software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web., Uniform Resource Locator (URL), A reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it, Upload, The process by which one computer, the host, sends a file to a remote computer via communication channels., Download, The process by which a computer obtains a file from a host computer via communication channels., Email, Messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.

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