GLOSSARY

From The Online Computing Dictionary:
browser: A program which allows a person to read HTML. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of nodes (or "pages") and of navigating from one node to another. Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples of browsers for the World-Wide Web.
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database: any collection of data organized for access: facts, statistics, articles, images, citations, recipes, etc.
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From The Online Computing Dictionary:
Digital Subscriber Line: A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies.
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From The Online Computing Dictionary:
(Note: capital "I"). The Internet is the largest internet in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks (e.g. ARPAnet, NSFNet, MILNET), mid-level networks, and stub networks. These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various protocols including the Internet Protocol.
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From The Online Computing Dictionary:
Internet Service Provider: A company which provides other companies or individuals with access to, or presence on, the Internet.
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From the Yale Library Catalog Guide:
keyword searching: When you search by keyword, each database record is checked for the presence of the word(s) you specify. A record will be retrieved if the words appear in almost any part (or "field") of the record, including the title, subtitle, author, publishing information, and subject fields.
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modem stands for MOdulator, DEModulator, because it translates a digital signal into an analog signal and back again, in order to send electronic information over regular phone lines.
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From The Tech Encyclopedia:
network: (1) An arrangement of objects that are interconnected.
(2) In communications, the transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software.
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From The Online Computing Dictionary:
protocol: A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network.
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From Michigan University's Resources for Teaching with Technology:
a search tool is generally one of two things: a search engine or a directory. A search engine is a collection of Uniform Resource Locators (URL's or World Wide Web addresses) that can be searched using either general topic headings (e.g., "education," "entertainment," "sports") or a user-entered search term or keyword. A search directory ... is generally created by humans. The URL's of sites must be submitted and then reviewers organize each URL into a specific category or categories.
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syntax: the rules governing the language and structure of a search query, including such elements as the order of terms and the meaning of symbols.
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World Wide Web: "A seamless world in which ALL information, from any source, can be accessed in a consistent and simple way" - Tim Berners-Lee, WWW "Creator"

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