You are online right now. Often people will say they are online meaning they have access to the Internet and have an e-mail address, but may not necessarily be connected to the Internet at that moment. Patience What you need while surfing the web. Some web pages seem to take forever to fully appear on your screen. Persistence What you often need to learn anything, including becoming proficient on the Internet.
Persistence is also a specific computer term.
It simply means that a connection between two devices will not be dissolved without explicit instructions to do so. Protocols are used to program applications, operating systems, and device drivers. The long bar at the far right of this screen is a scroll bar. The small square in it will allow you to scroll through the rest of this page. Just place your mouse pointer over the square, hold down the left click button on the mouse and slide the square up or down.