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absolute URL -

Complete internet address that takes one to the exact directory or file of a website.

Berners-Lee, Tim-

Born a mere mortal in London, England, on 8 June 1955, Tim Berners-Lee, was destined for something big. Not much is known (to me) of this brilliant man's childhood, but he eventually ended up graduating from the prestigious Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. This is where he built his first computer with nothing but a soldering iron, an old television, a bunch of what would be considered to day as old junk, and his bare hands. This would be far from his most fantastic feat, for in 1989, he was credited for the invention of the fastest growing web, man has ever seen to this day with his proposal of the creation of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.

browser -

a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

content -

the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations.

CSS -

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.

Domain Name -

A series of alphanumeric strings separated by periods, such as www.oup-usa.org, serving as an address for a computer network connection and identifying the owner of the address.

FTP -

File transfer protocol, a standard for the exchange of program and data files across a network.

homepage -

the opening page of a web site.

HTML -

Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. 

index.html -

When an HTTP client (generally a Web browser) requests a URL that points to a directory structure instead of an actual Web page within the directory, the Web server will generally serve a general page, which is often referred to as a main or "index" page..

Internet -

a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange

link -

an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

meta tag -

a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes the contents of a Web page.

network neutrality-

Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed

URL -

Uniform (or universal) resource locator, the address of a World Wide Web page.

W3C -

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3)

WWW -

World Wide Web.

<div>

a tag that defines a division or a section in an HTML document. The <div> tag is often used to group block-elements to format them with styles.

<font>

specifies the font face, font size, and font color of text