Web Browser - The application running on a user's computer that's responsible for requesting the text and graphics of webpages from servers on the internet.
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Web server - Provides internet pages for other computers through internet.
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Web hosting - a type of internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via World Wide Web.
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - movement of files across the internet.
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Internet service provider (ISP) - AN organization that has direct links to the internet & accepts transmissions from users over dial up or broadband connections.
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Search Engine - An application accessed over the internet that maintains indexes of webpages
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Cache - A store of recently accessed webpages and images they contain, kept by browser
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Cookies - Small files placed on the hard drive of a users computer by a website that they visited.
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Portal - A website designed to be the one that a user will want to visit first on the web
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Website - collection of webpages at the same domain and usually maintained by a single individual or organization