A dial-up computerized meeting and announcement system. You can carry on discussions, upload and download files. Pictures you see on a Web page are bitmaps. Bookmarks enable you to quickly find areas of the web you have visited and want to return to. Also occurs if the HTML code for the hyperlink is incorrect.
Browsers can be either text or graphic.
They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what we see as web pages. Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer are the best known examples of web browsers. When you return to a previously visited site your browser doesn't have to download the information all over again, instead it can grab it from the cache. This is why sometime you should refresh the page if you want to view the most current information. Chat - The online version of having a conversation, only you can chat with many others from all over the world at the same time.