browser

A program used to read documents on the world wide web.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

The "address" of a Web-site

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language

The set of "tags" used to format web pages.

http://

Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol

Request to access a hyper-text document on the world wide web.

Domain

The name and location of the computer on which your account is located.

Telnet

The program used to connect to another "remote" computer through your own, "local" computer.

Unix

The "operating system" (organizational structure and set of commands) on Darkwing, a UO campus mainframe.

Pico

A Unix document editor.

public_html

The directory in your Darkwing account in which your Web-site resides.

index.html

The first, main page of a Web-site.

FTP

File Transfer Protocol
(e.g., Fetch, RapidFiler, etc.)

A program that allows you to transfer files between your "local" computer (like a PC or a Mac) to another, "remote" computer (like Darkwing).