The series of commands that allows files to be moved from one computer to another on the Internet. A site, program, or piece of hardware that enables the passing of information from one system to another, usually incompatible, system. An early, menu-based means of organizing and linking texts and files on the Internet. A standard format for image files, commonly used on the Internet because translators are easily available. A list kept by the browser of Web sites that have been visited over a particular time period.
Users can return to a site in the list by selecting it from the history list.
Web sites frequently track hits as a measure of the popularity of the sites. The term hits also refers to a list of choices called up by a key word search in a database or an Internet search. The main page of a Web site. Home pages often have directories or icons that link to other pages of the site. A host is also called a server.