Many words and phrases are not easy to
understand. Here I have collected some I have used on these
web pages and tried to explain them.
Browser: A World Wide Web
Browser is the program you use when you are surfing the
internet and viewing web pages. Some
browsers have extra functionality like reading and writing
e-mail, FTP and newsgroups. Examples of other browsers than
WebLOS are Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Internet
Explorer and the Norwegian made Opera.
FTP: is an abbreviation for File
Transfer Protocol, a way of trantsfering files on the
internet. It is also possible to transfer files diretcly on
the web without using FTP.
Graphical User Interface: This is
how the program interacts with the user. A graphical user
interface communicates with the user with graphical symbols
and text. When something has a good user interface, it means
the program is easy to use and has a screen structure which
is easy to understand.
Newsgroups: This is discussion
groups where absolutely everything is discussed. The groups
resemble conferences on a Bulletin Borad System (BBS).
World Wide Web: is often abbreviated
to WWW or just the web. The Web consists of ducuments (web
pages) scattered over the whole internet in the form of text
and graphics with links to other web pages.
