Folder: About The Internet

Articles about the Internet.

Types of Websites

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?