Common holy wars are fought over Macintosh vs. Windows, UNIX vs. Windows NT, and everyone vs. Microsoft, as well as over societal issues such as abortion, gun control, and pornography. See also flame war. A web page that is topically the main source of information about a particular person, group, or concept. A computer that allows users to communicate with other host computers on a network. A chat term for someone who is managing a chat.
Hosts often act as referees and have the power to turn participants into spectators and vice versa.
See Hypertext Markup Language. Text that includes links or shortcuts to other documents, allowing the reader to easily jump from one text to related texts, and consequentially from one idea to another, in a non-linear fashion. Coined by Ted Nelson in 1965. See also hypertext. The protocol used by the World Wide Web to transfer HTML files.