These are all terms you should know if you want to be a Web professional.
HTML ~ Hypertext Markup Language
W3C ~ World Wide Web Consortium
Protocols
- TCP/IP ~ Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- HTTP ~ Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- There are many other protocols …
URL ~ Uniform Resource Locator
- FQDN ~ Fully Qualified Domain Name
- Protocol (HTTP or FTP, for instance)
- Domain name
- Machine name (www, for instance)
- Second-level domain (granneman, for instance)
- TLD ~ Top-level domain (com, net, org, etc.)
- Directory path (/class/basics/)
- Filename (definitions.htm)
- Database query (?query=Scott+Granneman)