The Operating System
Operating System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
URL Redirect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection (english only)
Market Share (November 2008)
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8 (english only)
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.aspx?icid=winvan
Apple
http://www.apple.com
Apple iPhone
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Linux
http://www.linux.org (english only)
The Browser
What the hell is a Web Browser?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser
The Hyperlink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often, imprecisely and confusingly, used as a synonym for uniform resource identifier. The confusion in usage stems from historically different interpretations of the semantics of the terms involved. In popular language a URL is also referred to as a Web address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator
Examples of the most common Web Browsers
Windows Internet Explorer, http://www.microsoft.com
Google Chrome, http://www.google.com/chrome
Mozilla Firefox, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/
Apple Safari, http://www.apple.com/safari/
Opera, http://www.opera.com
The guts of a Browser (Protocols and stuff)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
HTTPS
A URI scheme used to indicate a secure communication such as payment transactions and corporate information systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol_over_Secure_Socket_Layer
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
A network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network such as the Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
An Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring news among news servers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
One of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being POP3. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both protocols as a means of transferring e-mail messages from a server, such as those used by Gmail, to a client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol
Post Office Protocol (POP)
An application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP3 and IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol
Gopher
A distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is to function as an improved form of Anonymous FTP, enhanced with hyperlinking features similar to that of the World Wide Web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) & Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Cryptographic protocols that provide security and data integrity for communications over TCP/IP networks such as the Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
Cache
A collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing to longer access time) or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache. In other words, a cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be stored for rapid access. Once the data is stored in the cache, future use can be made by accessing the cached copy rather than re-fetching or recomputing the original data, so that the average access time is shorter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache
Plugin
A plugin (also: plug-in, addin, add-in, addon, add-on, snap-in or snapin) consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application (a web browser or an email client, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function “on demand”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)
Flash Player
A widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player (plugin) created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe after its acquisition. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player
Debugging
Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. Debugging tends to be harder when various subsystems are tightly coupled, as changes in one may cause bugs to emerge in another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Those who define standars in the online ether.
http://www.w3.org
