BROWSER The Internet software client which is used to access documents on the World-Wide Web.

 CERN  The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, located near Geneva, Switzerland. Where Tim Berners-Lee orginally conceived of the World-Wide Web.
For more information visit CERN.

 CGI The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as Web servers.
For more information, visit the CGI FAQ.

 CLIENT A software program which is installed on the users computer. It allows the user to utilize the function and the capabilities of their personal computer, such as a mouse. Web clients are called browsers.

 HEAD This is an HTML element contains information about a document, rather than the content. The Head does not contain any text, which comprises the Body of the document.
See: BODY 

 HOME PAGE The first Web document which a user accesses when starting their Web browser. Also refers to the initial page of a World-Wide Web site. 

 HTML Hypertext Markup Language. The primary language used to create Web Documents. It is subset of the publishing industries Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
See: SGML 

 HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol. This is the primary Internet protocol which computers communicate using the Web. Both the client and server speak http.

 JAVA  A programming language designed by Sun Microsystems.

 JAVASCRIPT  A programming language that can be thought of as an extention of HTML. Developed by Netscape.

 MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. Originally developed for inserting media content into electronic mail messages.
The complete description of MIME is also available.

 NCSA  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is located at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. They are developed of various software products which are used on the Internet today, including MOSAIC.
For more information visit NCSA.

 PDF  The Portable Document Format has been developed by the Adobe Corporation and is in of itself a hypertext system.

 PERL Perl is an interpreted programming language which is becoming very popular in Web site development.
For more information visit the Perl Mongers. 

 PNG  The Portable Network Graphics is a newer multimedia format being developed and organized by the World Wide Web Consortium.
A complete technical description of PNG is available.

 SGML SGML is defined in ISO 8879:1986 Information Processing -- Text and Office Systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
For more information go to A Gentle Introduction to SGML.

 SMIL Allows integration of media using HTML-style markup tags. Elements (images,audio,video,animations) are referenced from a SMIL file, similar to how a HTML page references images, applets, and other elements.
For more information go to SMIL.

 VRML The Virtual Reality Modeling Language. A language for describing virtual worlds networked via the Internet and hyperlinked with the World Wide Web.
For more information visit the Web3D Consortium.

 World Wide Web A mutimedia Internet search protocol which utilizes hypertext and graphics to aid in navigation.