The most popular news group hierarchy on the Internet. A directory outside the home directory that appears to browsers as a subdirectory of the home directory. Typically, files that the Web site administrator updates frequently. A software program, such as Internet Explorer, that retrieves a document from an Web server, interprets the HTML codes, and displays the document to the user with as much graphics as the software can supply. A World Wide Web document.
Pages can contain almost anything, such as news, images, movies, and sounds.
A computer equipped with the server software to respond to Web client requests, such as requests from a Web browser. See also Domain Name System . The most graphical service on the Internet. The Web also has the most sophisticated linking abilities. All rights reserved.