Glossary of Terms

In an effort to provide our clients with a better understanding of the more commonly used Internet terminology, we have created this Glossary of Internet Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms.

 

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Hacker  ::   A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term.

Hash Value  ::   A shortened unique identifier for a string of text, generated by applying a formula to the string in such a way that is extremely unlikely that some other string will produce the same hash value.

Header  ::   Information that appears at the top of e-mail messages, and newsgroup articles that contains data about the sender and the message. The date and time the message was created, the computer path through which the message travelled and other information.

Header Tag  ::   An HTML tag which is commonly used for page headers.

Helper Application  ::   A stand-alone software program that a Browser uses to handle certain incoming files.

Hex Code  ::   The binary code name for a color used in HTML.

Hidden Text  ::   Text which is invisible to the human eye because it is the same color as the background.

Hit  ::   A single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server. Thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 'hits' would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics.

Home Page  ::   This technically is the index page or default page of your directory.

Host  ::   A computer that allows users to communicate with other host computers on a network. Individual users communicate by using client programs, such as electronic mail, Telnet and FTP. Every computer on the Internet with its own IP address is designated as a host.

Hosting  ::  Usually refers to a computer (or a network of servers) that stores the files of a web site which has web server software running on it, connected to the Internet. Your site is then said to be Hosted.

Hotbot  ::   One of the top 15 search engines.

Hotspot  ::   Areas in a Web document or graphic that are hyperlinks to other pages or URLs. E.g. banners, adverts, menus

HTML  ::  HyperText Markup Language. HTML is the language by which Web servers and client browsers communicate. All server-side functions (such as database processing), although they may be performed in another language, must eventually be output back to the user in HTML.

HTML Link  ::   A link from one page to another.

HTTP  ::   HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the protocol by which HTML files move across the Internet. HTTP requires a client browser and an HTTP server (typically a Web server).

HTTPS  ::   HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure. The secure version of HTTP.

Hyperlink  ::   A means of "jumping" from one information site to another on the same or a different network server.

Hypertext  ::   A document that contains links to other documents, commonly seen in Web pages and help files.

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