A byte is equivalent to one character. N ame S ystem is the naming system that identifies computers connected to the Internet. A part of the Internet naming hierarchy. Transferring the other way is uploading. A method by which computer users can exchange messages with each other over a network.
Email is probably the most widely-used communications tool on the Internet.
P rotocol allows the transfer of files from one computer to another. FTP is commonly used as a verb to describe the act of transferring files from one computer to another. I nterchange F ormat, a commonly used graphics format developed by CompuServe. Gopher is also the name of a gopher client program available on most UNIX-based systems. M arkup L anguage, HTML codes are interpreted by the Web browser to format documents in a particular way.