For more information and examples, check out HTML Help. HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The protocol computers use to transfer information containing hypertext, mainly web pages. Hyperlink - A hyperlink or link is simply how pages on a web site are connected. To connect to another page, you would click just once on the link.
Links can be either text or graphics.
Text links are usually highlighted and underlined while images that change your mouse pointer to a finger can usually be clicked on. The Internet itself is comprised of several components, such as the World Wide Web, E-Mail, FTP, Gopher, Newsgroups, and Internet Relay Chat. Though started over 25 years ago, it has just recently become the phenomenon it is today with the advent of graphical browsers and dynamic content. InterNIC - The Internet Network Information Center. An association that stores information about the Internet as well as the group that monitors and issues Domain names.