The standard computer language used to format documents that are to be published as pages on the World Wide Web. HTML allows text, pictures, sound, animation and movies to be placed on Web pages. In use since the World Wide Web came into existence in the early 1990's, HTTP is the communications protocol used to transport hypertext over the Internet. Documents that contain highlighted text that provides links to other documents. Selecting the highlighted link takes you to the connected documents.
Web pages are examples of hypertext.
An abbreviation commonly used in e-mail and newsgroups. An Internet address expressed as numbers, usually used in conjunction with a domain name, which is an address expressed as a meaningful name. A digital telephone line and service that allows computers, voice and fax to run over a single plain telephone cable at the same time. The data transfer rate is up to 128,000 bits per second. ISDN never really found a market niche and has been generally replaced by ADSL technology as the future for home and, to a lesser extent, office connectivity.