PB1200: Information Resources in Public Justice
Internet Explanations


The Internet and The World Wide Web

What is the Internet?

What is the history of the Internet?

What is the World Wide Web?

Web Browsers

What is a browser?

What is a web page?

What is Netscape Navigator?

Netscape Tutorial

Indexing the Web

What is a web index?

What is a web search engine?

What is a web meta-searcher?

Searching the World Wide Web: Strategies, Analyzing Your Topic, Choosing Search Tools

Email

What is electronic mail (email)?

What is a mailing list?

What is netiquette?

Explanations of Technical Terms

What is client/server computing?

What is a domain name?

What is ftp?

What is HTML?

What is HTTP?

What is Internet addressing?

What is an IP address?

What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?

What is a network?

What is network news?

What is a packet?

What is a protocol?

What is SLIP/PPP?

What is TCPIP?

What is telnet?

What is a URL?

What is a computer virus?


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This web site was created by Margaret Sylvia (msylvia@stmarytx.edu) to educate Public Justice students at St. Mary's University in the use of information resources. Most of the information here is from the "15 Minute Series" from Internic.
Created August 1998. Last modified