WWW INTRODUCTION January 1995
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PART 18: Glossary
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This is the eighteenth and final part of a series of postings describing
the concept of the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in
obtaining and setting up the software required to access the Web.
The whole series is available on the newsgroup
<A HREF = "news:bionet.software.www"> bionet.www.software </A> and
<A HREF = "news:unibas.seminars"> unibas.seminars </A>. Both an
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/florianW3_1.html">
English </A> and a
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/florianW3_sp.html">
Spanish </A> version (contributed by Pablo Liendo, Venezuela), can be also
accessed via the
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/info.html">
WWW archive </A> of the newsgroup bionet.www.software.
The World-Wide Web has its own terminology. Here is a brief explanation of
terms used in previous parts of this introduction:
AIX - UNIX based operating system developed by IBM
Anonymous FTP - FTP that allows the retrieval of files from public sites
Archie - a network tool that searches anonymous FTP sites for files
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BITNET - "Because It's Time Network", an academic collective of networks
Browser - a client allows access to the World-Wide Web
CERN - European Centre for Particle Physics, Switzerland
Client - a program that can request services from a server via the network
Domain - a naming category in the DNS
DNS - Domain Name System, hierarchical system of host naming
Driver - a program that controls an external device or an I/O port
EARN - European Academic Research Network
EMBnet - European Molecular Biology Network
Ethernet - standard for physical and data link layer specifications
FTP - File Transfer Protocol, Internet standard for transferring files
Gopher - network tool that allows to access various types of data
Host - a computer that acts as a client or a server
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, standard language of WWW
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol, standard protocol of WWW
Hypermedia - multimedia hypertext
Hyperlink - relationship between two objects on the Web
Hypertext - text that contains pointers to other text
Interrupt - a request-for-attention signal
IP - the standard Internet Protocol
Internet - international collective of networks running TCP/IP
IRIX - UNIX-based operation system developed by SGI
LAN - Local Area Network
NNTP - News Network Transfer Protocol, method to transfer News articles
Packet - a network message with header, addressing information and data
Protocol - the rules two computers must follow to exchange messages
Server - a program that provides a service to a client
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Subnet - a LAN within an internetwork
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TELNET - Internet standard protocol for remote terminal connection
ULTRIX - UNIX-based operating system developed by DEC
UNIX - operating system developed by Bell Laboratories
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
VM - operating system developed by IBM
VMS - operating system developed by DEC
WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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EMBnet Switzerland is a project funded by the University of Basel, the
Swiss National Science Foundation, and industrial contributions from
Digital Equipment and Silicon Graphics (in alphabetical order).
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| F. Eggenberger, Ph.D. | eggenber at comp.bioz.unibas.ch |
| Biocomputing | eggenberger1 at ubaclu.unibas.ch |
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