Basic Internet Terminology

Basic Internet Terminology

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๐—™๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜ :

๐™Ž๐™€๐™๐™‘๐™€๐™: A server is a program that runs on a machine and is meant to provide services to the machines (clients) connected to it. It accepts the requests which come to it from a client, processes the request, generates the response, and sends the required information to the client. The communication between a client and a server uses HTTP protocol.

๐˜พ๐™‡๐™„๐™€๐™‰๐™: A client is an application ( eg. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) running on a local device ( desktop, laptop) that request and uses services provided by a web server. It is also known as a thin client because it relies heavily on the web server for fetching the information from it.

๐™’๐™€๐˜ฝ ๐˜ฝ๐™๐™Š๐™’๐™Ž๐™€๐™: It is a software application through which one searches and access information on the World Wide Web. For example, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc

๐™’๐™€๐˜ฝ ๐™‹๐˜ผ๐™‚๐™€: A web page is a document commonly written in HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language) that is hosted on the Internet.

๐™’๐™€๐˜ฝ๐™Ž๐™„๐™๐™€: A website is a collection of publicly accessible interlinked web page, containing related information, located under a single domain name.

๐˜ฟ๐™Š๐™ˆ๐˜ผ๐™„๐™‰ ๐™‰๐˜ผ๐™ˆ๐™€: It is a unique name given to each website.

๐™๐™๐™‡: The Uniform Resource Locator denotes the global address of the documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

๐™’๐™€๐˜ฝ ๐™‹๐™Š๐™๐™๐˜ผ๐™‡: It is a gateway to a wide range of internet services, such as an e-mail, search engines, forums, E-Commerce, etc.

๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™Š๐™‚ (๐™Š๐™ ๐™’๐™€๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™Š๐™‚): A blog is a frequent updated online personal journal or diary. It is an easy-to-create website, which consists of a signed and dated log of individual posting.

๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™Š๐™‚๐™‚๐™€๐™: The author of a blog is shown as blogger who regularly writes and updates the blog.

๐˜ฝ๐™‡๐™Š๐™‚๐™‚๐™„๐™‰๐™‚: The act of writing a blog is called blogging.

๐™‰๐™€๐™’๐™Ž๐™‚๐™๐™Š๐™๐™‹: It is an online platform where people can exchange information on any topic.

๐™€-๐™ˆ๐˜ผ๐™„๐™‡: It is an electronic messaging system that allows one to send and receive letters and attachment (images, video, and other files) in real time.

๐™€-๐™ˆ๐˜ผ๐™„๐™‡ ๐˜ผ๐˜ฟ๐˜ฟ๐™๐™Ž๐™Ž๐™€๐™Ž: it is a unique electronic address where e-mail are received. Similar to how you needs physical address to receive a postal mail. You need an e-mail address to receive an e-mail address consists of two parts - a username and a Domin Name, separated by the @ ('at') symbol.

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