Internet glossary

403 Forbidden
An error message indicating that the HTTP server is not permitted to read a file.

404 Not Found
Error message indicating that a web address is invalid.

Browser
A program that allows you to read HYPERTEXT in files or on the World Wide Web. Popular World Wide Web browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla Firefox (FF), Opera and Safari.

Encryption
Information that is coverted into a code so that peple are unable to read it.

Internet Explorer
A popular browser to view web pages which is included in Microsoft Windows.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)
A company that provides its customers with access to the internet through a broadband service.

Mozilla Firefox
A popular web browser to view web pages.

Thumbnail
A small image of a graphics file displayed in order to help you identify it.

Upload
To transmit a file to a central computer from a small computer or a computer at a remote location.

URL (Universal Resource Locater)
A way of specifying the location of publicly available information on the Internet. The URL for a website.

User-friendly
Easy for people to use.

WYSIWYG
An acronym for 'what you see is what you get'. With a word processing program, this means that the appearance of the screen is an exact picture of how the document or text will look when printed.

XHTML
A formulation of HTML as an extension of XML.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)
A language similar to HTML but designed for transmitting complex data structure of any type not just web pages.