How to Download from GitHub
Tutorial: learn how to download and install applications and source code from GitHub.
Folder: About The Internet
Articles about the Internet.
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Bookmark
A feature of web browsers and social media websites that lets you bookmark webpages and posts to revisit later. -
To Download
What does it mean "To Download" from the Internet? To download something from the Internet has multiple meanings, some more technical than others. Technically, any time data is being transferred from a computer somewhere on the planet to your computer through the Internet, we say that your computer is downloading data from the Internet. This […] -
Playlist
A list of songs or videos to listen to or watch, specially when creating lists of your favorite songs and videos platforms such as Youtube and Spotify. -
Directory
A thing that lists or indexes other things. A folder (lists files). -
Subdomain
The "www" in a website's URL, or any text code in its place. -
Avatar
Small image that appears next to your username in forums, online communities, and other social media websites, specially next to your posts and in your profile page. -
Username
Text code that uniquely identifies an user in an system. -
HTML
Code language used to write webpages. -
Domain Name
A text code such as www.example.com. -
Internet
Short for Interconnected Network, a network of computers that span the entire planet, allowing any computer to communicate with any other computer anywhere in the world. -
Server
What is a Server? A server is a computer program that sends data to clients connected to it, and clients are computer programs that receive data from a server. These terms typically refer to programs running in different computers connected through the Internet. For example, a web server that serves webpages to web clients such […] -
Client
What is a Client in a Computer? A client is a computer program that receives data from a server, which is a computer program that sends data to clients. Typically, these terms refer to a client in one computer connecting over the Internet to a server in another computer, e.g. a web browser is a […] -
Homepage
What is a Homepage? A homepage is the main webpage of a website or of a person or organization who owns a website. Generally, the homepage is what you get by typing just the domain name of the website in the address bar of your web browser. For example, if you type google.com, you end […] -
Webpage
What is a Webpage? A webpage is a single page of a website that can be displayed by a web browser through the webpage's own unique URL. More technically, webpages are plain text files containing HTML code. Whenever your browsers accesses a webpage's URL, it downloads from a web server that serves the websites' pages […] -
Cookie
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website gives your web browser that your web browser sends back to the website every time you access a web page. A common function of cookies is to keep track of what a visitor did on the website. The reason cookies exist is that, in […] -
URL
A URL is a text code like this: https://www.example.com/search.php?q=cool%20books&p=2#results. It's used by a web browser to figure out how to access web page and works like the online address of something on the internet (URL stands for Universal Resource Locator). Technically, a URL isn't necessarily a web page, it can be the address of an […] -
Web Browser
A web browser is an application made for accessing web sites and displaying their web pages. The most popular web browsers nowadays are Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Edge, Opera, and Mozilla's Firefox. Web browsers exist in both in desktop PCs as well as smartphones and other mobile devices They aren't to be confused with […] -
Link
On the internet, what is a link?