BPS Bits Per Second. Measurement of the speed at which data can be transmitted over a telephone, cable or network line. An application that displays Web pages. Also known as a Web browser. A program that interprets and displays hypertext documents.
Browsers also provide an easy way to travel around the Internet.
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer are two popular browsers. A byte is equal to either 7 or 8. A byte stores a single character of information such as the letter A. CGI Common Gateway Interface. CGI is an interface for running external programs, or gateways, under an information server. In non-technical terms, gateways are programs which handle information requests and return the appropriate document or generate a new document to satisfy the request.